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Earth's tectonic plates are constantly changing and changing, forcing continents to move a few inches each year.
The continents of the Earth will merge and form a new super continent called Novopangea in about 200 to 250 million years, according to new research.
The last terrestrial super-formation, known as Pangea, was formed 310 million years ago and began to fall apart 130 million years later.
This change has resulted in the formation of the Atlantic Ocean, which continues to grow in the form of tectonic plates against each other.
Meanwhile, the Pacific Ocean is getting smaller and smaller as the continents get closer to the big water plan.
According to researchers, the continents of the world are currently in a "dispersed" phase and will continue to move and move each year.
However, scientists have also predicted three other possible formations in the next 200 million years: Pangea Ultima, Aurica and Amasia.
Pange Ultima is made up of all the fused continents, surrounding a small part of the Atlantic Ocean in the center.
If the Atlantic and Pacific oceans close, a new ocean basin will form, giving rise to an Aurica formation.
This would give birth to a supercontinent called Aurica, North America, South America and East Asia merging into one continent.
The European and African plates would then join the Atlantic Americas.
The last possible scenario, Amasia, where several of the tectonic plates move north, far from Antarctica.
The drift is due to anomalies left by Pangea in the interior of the Earth, called mantle.
This would result in the formation of a supercontinent called Amasia, with the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans remaining open.
According to the current changing trends of the Earth, scientists predict that Novopangea is the most likely scenario.
Mattias Green is a physical oceanography reader from Bangor University, writes in The Conversation: "Of these four scenarios, we think Novopangea is most likely.
"This is a logical progression of the current directions of continental plate drift, while the other three assume that another process is taking place.
"It would be necessary to create new subduction zones of the Atlantic for Aurica, the overthrow of the Atlantic opening for Pangea Ultima or anomalies in the interior of the Earth left by Pangea for Amasia.
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