New meaning to "one world gov't"
Posted by Sane Spirit on Thursday, September 13, 2012
Under: In the News
Earth’s modern continents are the fragments of a single, 300-million-year-old supercontinent called Pangaea. This vast landmass once rested on the equator, near where Africa is today. During the age of dinosaurs, tectonic forces slowly tore Pangaea apart. Now geologists predict those same forces will reassemble the pieces into a new supercontinent, named Amasia, about 100 million years in the future.
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A team of Yale geologists say they have cracked the problem, providing the best look yet at the planet of a.d. 100,000,000. Led by graduate student Ross Mitchell, the researchers first looked back beyond Pangaea and determined the location of supercontinents Rodinia, which formed about a billion years earlier, and Nuna, 700 million years before that. The team found that during the last two cycles, each supercontinent formed a quarter of the way around the globe from where the previous supercontinent had been. Using that insight, they calculated that Amasia will form over the North Pole.
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he findings offer more than a glimpse into the world of tomorrow. A better understanding of the supercontinent cycles will shed light on the evolution and dispersal of the prehistoric creatures that were passengers on these traveling continents. The discovery also has implications for the search for oil, which usually forms where continents drift apart, says Mitchell, a consultant for Shell.
This Is What Earth Will Look Like in 100,000,000 AD
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A team of Yale geologists say they have cracked the problem, providing the best look yet at the planet of a.d. 100,000,000. Led by graduate student Ross Mitchell, the researchers first looked back beyond Pangaea and determined the location of supercontinents Rodinia, which formed about a billion years earlier, and Nuna, 700 million years before that. The team found that during the last two cycles, each supercontinent formed a quarter of the way around the globe from where the previous supercontinent had been. Using that insight, they calculated that Amasia will form over the North Pole.
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he findings offer more than a glimpse into the world of tomorrow. A better understanding of the supercontinent cycles will shed light on the evolution and dispersal of the prehistoric creatures that were passengers on these traveling continents. The discovery also has implications for the search for oil, which usually forms where continents drift apart, says Mitchell, a consultant for Shell.
This Is What Earth Will Look Like in 100,000,000 AD
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