Continental drift

August 9, 2005 1:11 PM

Continental drift: where are we heading?

During Earth's history the continents have been shuffled around a lot. According to Wikipedia, there have been at least three supercontinents (Rodinia, Pannotia, Pangaea). Will there be another one? Has anyone tried to plot where the continents are going next? Continental shift can change climate (and survivability) drastically: Scandinavia was once tropical.

posted by Termite to Science & Nature (4 answers total)

Dougal Dixon's awesome (and evidently out-of-print) After Man: A Zoology of the Future has some excellent maps of future continental drift along with the awesome animals. Highly recommended.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:32 PM on August 9, 2005

Will there be another one? Yes.. you can't stop the drift.

Has anyone tried to plot where the continents are going? Yes.
posted by some chick at 2:34 PM on August 9, 2005

more maps of the future
posted by clarahamster at 5:01 PM on August 9, 2005

But what if the HAB Theory is true?
posted by Chunder at 2:18 AM on August 10, 2005