Novopangea
Novopangea or Novopangea ( Greek - Latin for "New Pangea ") is a possible future supercontinent postulated by Roy Livermore (now at the University of Cambridge ) in the late 1990s. He assumes the closure of the Pacific and the docking of Australia with East Asia and the northern movement of Antarctica .
Alternative scenarios
Paleogeologist Ronald Blakey has described the next 15 to 100 million years of tectonic evolution as fairly consistent and predictable, but no supercontinent will form in that time frame. Additionally, he warns that the geological records are full of unexpected shifts in tectonic activity that make further projections "very, very speculative". In addition to Novopangea, two other hypothetical supercontinents - " Amasia " and Christopher Scotees " Pangea Proxima " - were illustrated in an October 2007 article in New Scientist . The fourth scenario is the supercontinent Aurica , in which the Pacific and the Atlantic close together. The supercontinent of Novopangea is believed to be the most likely scenario.
literature
- Nield, Ted: Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, Harvard University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0674032453
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilkins, Alasdair: " A Geological History of Supercontinents on Planet Earth " on io9 . January 27, 2011. Accessed July 17, 2020.
- ↑ a b Manaugh, Geoff, & al. "What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago?" in The Atlantic online. September 23, 2013. Accessed July 17, 2020.
- ↑ Pangea, the comeback . In: New Scientist , October 20, 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
- ↑ This is what the next supercontinent should look like , on welt.de on November 28, 2018.