The Pacific Ocean will disappear in the future (PICTURES+VIDEO)  

To form the new super-continent Amasia

According to the calculations of the Curtin University supercomputer , the days of the Pacific Ocean are numbered, since in 300 million years it will disappear and in its place there will be the new supercontinent Amasia . Earth’s oldest ocean is shrinking every year by a few centimeters due to the movement of tectonic plates that bring the Pacific plate under the Eurasian and Indo-Australian plates, reducing the distance between North America and Asia and Australia.

Scientists expect that in the future there will be only one super-continent, which they call Amasia.

Over the past two billion years, Earth’s continents have collided to create a supercontinent every 600 million years, also known as the “supercontinent cycle.” By simulating how Earth’s tectonic plates are expected to evolve using a supercomputer, we were able to show that in less than 300 million years the Pacific will disappear, giving way to Amasia. Earth will be very different when Amasia forms. Sea level will be lower and most of the interior of the supercontinent will be arid with high daily temperatures.

However, this is just one more simulation among many, but in any case the Pacific Ocean is doomed. In the Novopangaea scenario , the Americas collide with Antarctica before colliding with Eurasia and Africa. In Aurica ‘s scenario , the Pacific and Atlantic disappear and a new vast ocean forms.

The research was published in the National Science Review .