“Pangea” is the name given to the supercontinent that existed about 335 million years ago. After its separation, Pangea gave rise to what we know today as the continents of planet Earth.
However, anyone who thinks that Pangea was the last supercontinent is very mistaken! The Earth’s crust is divided into 52 tectonic plates that move over the magmatic mantle, driven by the Earth’s internal energy.
As the years go by, the plates slowly move until large masses of rock are separated from each other. An example of this is Rodinia, the supercontinent that existed before Pangea, about 750 million years ago.
Based on this, it is easy to see that supercontinents exist in cycles, forming huge land masses that are close to each other for a period of time. After a while, they divide again into new continents until millions of years later they form a new supercontinent.
Will there be another supercontinent after Pangea?
As you can understand from what we explained above, the answer is Yes! After Pangea and our current configuration of continents, scientists theorize that a new supercontinent will be formed.
Even here, in Multiverse Newswe have already published an article addressing issues regarding one of the processes that will lead to the creation of this new supercontinent. The two most likely are Aurica and Amasia.
Because there is no way to measure exactly when Earth’s internal system might create a new crack in the plates and push them in opposite directions, it is difficult to say how the continents will come together or how they will come together.
The models, however, are quite simple, but their consequences are more severe. In the case of Auricawhat is expected is that the continents will come together at the Equator, with the land masses more or less well distributed between both hemispheres.
If this supercontinent were to form, logically, given the amount of land mass present at the equator, the absorption of sunlight would be much greater. Consequently, the average temperature of the planet would rise significantly!
As for the theory of Amasiathis would be the supercontinent formed if the current continents joined together around the Arctic pole.
In this way, in the end, only Antarctica would be present in the Southern Hemisphere. Logically, the planet would end up entering a new ice age, perhaps even stronger than the last one.
