2006-08-20 22:59:44 · 18 answers · asked by jack andrews 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Yes, eventually all landmasses will collid with all other landmasses.
2006-08-20 23:04:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although the Pacific is "shrinking", and America is approaching Asia, the process is probably not going to go on indefinitely. The most likely scenario is that the subduction zones around the Pacific Rim (The "Ring of Fire") will ultimately die out. At the same time as the Atlantic widens, the ocean crust on the eastern side of the Americas will founder and form new subduction zones. Thus the Atlantic will begin to close again, and the Pacific widen. The Americas will again collide with Africa and Europe forming a new Supercontinent.
When? The best guess is that the current pattern has about 100 million to 200 million years to run, then a similar time to re-collide.
However, more immediately, America is already merging with Asia in the Alaska/Kamchatka area; during periods of low sea level the two are connected at the present Bering Strait
2006-08-21 06:56:29 · answer #2 · answered by Paul FB 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not in a very, and i truely mean very long time more. This is due to continents being very firmly "anchored" into the ground. And if there are tectonic forces working the continent of America towards the continent of Asia, similarly, there will be other tectonic forces working AGAINST. So as with the presence of a force "negating" the others magnitude, the result will be rather negligible. Thus, it will not be enough to cause the Americas to collide with Asia in the foreseeable future.
2006-08-21 06:12:17 · answer #3 · answered by newsatin 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes eventually, the Pacific is shrinking and the Atlantic is widening. It is going to be a few hundred million years though. The continents as we know know them were once joined together as one huge supercontinent "Pangea", there is every chance that they will again.
2006-08-21 06:09:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eventually it will, but never in the history of the Earth have they made any contact, even when all the continents were just one big Pangea, Europe and Africa got in the way.
2006-08-21 06:38:46 · answer #5 · answered by hawaiian_shorts91 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what do you mean by ever? it is already colliding with asia.
2006-08-21 06:07:08 · answer #6 · answered by Jyoti P 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unlikely. Especially if you accept that plate tectonics is a result of a catastrophic event - not slow and gradual.
2006-08-21 12:44:43 · answer #7 · answered by a Real Truthseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would take millions and millions of years when you consider the size of the ocean and the rate at which tectonic plates move.
2006-08-21 14:29:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the americans will have bombed and destroyed asia by the time the comtinents move that far.
2006-08-21 06:06:52 · answer #9 · answered by Mungo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not before global warming sinks most of America!!
2006-08-21 06:05:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋