from the research i have done, the atlantic ocean is getting bigger, and the pacific ocean is getting smaller. australia is moving at an alarming speed (geologically speaking) at about 3 inches north-northeast every year! which means, eventually, Sydney will be across the bay from Los Angeles. provided we don't destroy the planet before then... but hey, humans aren't the brightest animals on earth, you know. :-)
2006-09-30 17:27:17
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answered by James J 2
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Currently the Australian plate is colliding with a number of plates and "platelets" along the Indonesia-New Guinea line, and in perhaps 75 million years will be effectively fused to Asia.
Although the Atlantic is widening and the Pacific closing, all indications are that on a longer scale (several hundred m.y.) the situation will change. The subduction zones along the west of the Americas will fonder, and new ones develop on the East. The Atlantic will then close up again. Another global "Supercontinent" might be formed in about 300-400 m.y.
I suggest you sell any property you own on the Atlantic coast, before it drops in value.
2006-10-01 06:55:51
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answered by Paul FB 3
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Collision as opposed to separation. I'm not sure but based on my own personal conjecture I think that California will experience a divergence from the Continent and then there will follow a convergence of the same resulting in a collision as you say.
2006-10-01 00:01:16
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answered by Anonymous
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The Indian sub-continent is constantly pushing into the Asian continent, hence the Himalayan moutains.
2006-10-01 07:27:01
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answered by riaanvisser2002 1
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They are all in contact with the surrounding plates.
2006-10-01 04:49:23
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answered by Anonymous
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all of them
2006-09-30 23:55:34
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answered by danthemanbrunner 2
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