Tag: supercontinent

At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalized by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a paleontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of red clay looking for fossils. These are not any old fossils, but 75-million-year-old...
On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as the 2025 Myanmar earthquake). This event caused severe shaking and substantial damage in Myanmar and...

In 250 million years, a single supercontinent will form, wiping out nearly all mammals: Modeling study

A recent study published in Nature Geoscience uses supercomputer climate models to examine how a supercontinent, dubbed Pangea Ultima (also called Pangea Proxima), that...

How the next ‘supercontinent’ will form

It might seem that the world's landmasses are fixed, but as Richard Fisher discovers, there are major changes coming. Nearly 500 years ago, the Flemish...

Pacific Ocean set to make way for world’s next supercontinent

New Curtin University-led research has found that the world's next supercontinent, Amasia, will most likely form when the Pacific Ocean closes in 200 to...

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