what are the theories on where the continents will eventually be in about 1 billion years? will they be merged together for example? or much farther apart?
2006-07-30 16:58:56 · 16 answers · asked by Jenn 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
THE CONTINENTS MOVE 1INCH FOR EVERY 100 MILLION YEARS EXACTLY.SO IT MIGHT SOMEWAT NEARER OR THE CONTINENTS WILL ALMOST MERGE TOGETHER FOR 1BILLION YEARS.
2006-07-30 19:35:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Over tens of millions of years, the continents move together and apart, back together, then apart again. Pangaea is usually called "the" supercontinent, but there were multiple supercontinents before Pangaea. In another 100-200 million years, the continents will come together again to form another supercontinent. A billion years from now, it's impossible to tell exactly where they will be, but they will have come together and split apart many times.
2006-07-30 17:03:35 · answer #2 · answered by Tim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some will be further apart, some will be closer and some new ones would have been created, since they are starting to break apart - like North American and Africa.
The sun has 10 billion years to go - we may all be dead if global warming is not kept in check, but the sun will not blow up in 1 billion.
2006-07-30 17:03:51 · answer #3 · answered by Sirena 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well answer this will the sun be burned out in 1 billion years think about it be real do you really think the earth been here a billions already easy to say a billion but that's a long time
2006-07-30 17:03:16 · answer #4 · answered by darren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about that one. Few models for continental drift exist that far into the future. The only thing I've ever seen is that Californias coast line running down the San Andrea fault will break away and drift northward. It'll be somewhere near Washington State in 55,000,000 years
2006-07-30 17:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by voyager21_1999 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the continents will get smaller due to global warming and the arctic and antarctic melting more and more each year.. we will be lucky if the human race even survives that long I think we will have made ourselves extinc by then and that the mass of land will be very little on earth.
2006-07-30 17:13:43 · answer #6 · answered by channille 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably merge back together on the other side, some pieces of land will fall into the oceans, many earthquakes will change the shape of the land, there will be huge mountains and one big piece of land.
2006-07-30 17:02:45 · answer #7 · answered by Fluffington Cuddlebutts 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think some will merge and some will get farther apart
2006-07-30 17:00:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they will probably be really close to forming a pangea like super continent
2006-07-30 18:00:31 · answer #9 · answered by paleojosh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gone
2006-07-30 17:02:02 · answer #10 · answered by Toddacanda 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the earth won't be around in 1 billion years because God won't let it be around that long
2006-07-30 17:01:50 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋