The massive landmass will be barely recognizable, with an enormous ocean on one side of the planet.
Robert Butler, a professor of tectonics, geology and geophysics at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, toldthe future supercontinent animation was"pretty crude and hard to judge," as it does not show plate boundaries.
However, he said that"people might quibble about the details on the animation, such as their own place on the planet, but the overall principle is pretty solid." Butler also said that predicting future continental drift relies on using past records of continental movements and then extrapolating from them into the future.
"It's pretty robust because the velocities of relative plate motion are slow and it's nonturbulent," he said."We can track back plate evolution very accurately for the past, say, 200 million years, as the record of relative plate motion is charted by the record of sea-floor-spreading on the world's modern oceans.
Butler said the prediction of a future Pangea is not very surprising."One thought is that supercontinents come and go in cycles over the past 3 billion years at least."
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