#supercontinent

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Okay but look at our pookiebear India <3

There she isssssss @india-official @totally-india @ancient-india-official

Also look at Gujarat smushed against Africa

Lil gorl @gujarat-offical

[mindblowingscience]

Mammals may be driven to extinction by volcanic new supercontinent Pangaea Ultima

The next supercontinent, Pangea Ultima, is likely to get so hot so quickly that mammals cannot adapt, a new supercomputer simulation has for

Mammals will most likely be wiped from the face of the Earth by our planet's next supercontinent, a new study has revealed.  By modeling the heat tolerance of mammals alongside Earth's climatic conditions 250 million years into the future, scientists have discovered that the formation of the most probable next supercontinent — called Pangaea Ultima — will bring about the likely extinction of our animal order. The researchers made the prediction using a climate model that factored in the changes to land surface temperature of a new supercontinent; alongside increases to the intensity of the sun's radiation and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The study was published Sept. 25 in the journal Nature Geoscience. "A supercontinent seemingly creates conditions that more easily lead to mass extinction," first-author Alexander Farnsworth, a climatologist at the University of Bristol in the U.K. told Live Science. "[Supercontinent formation] has coincided with four of the last five mass extinctions in the geologic past." 

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[jomindraws]

2 Billion years of Tectonic History for Jom'Gol !!!!

After simulating the plate tectonics for an excruciating 2.5 billion years (not irl time, but might as well have been), I made this crude animation of the previous 2.5 billion years of tectonic history!

Although very crude, the simple borders represent landmasses, the scratchy lines represent orogeny or mountain ranges. Every frame is 50 million years (date listed at the top). (also little sounds in there too .w.)

I intend to add an additional space in between each frame for every 25 million years, then probably color them with a basic topographic map. Until then !!! I continue on !!!!

[noosphe-re]

Gondwana was the great southern landmass that formed as a result of the division of a much larger supercontinent known as Pangea about 250 million years ago. This Gondwanan supercontinent consisted of present day landmasses: Africa, South America, India, Madagascar, Australia and New Zealand. The other section of Pangea, known as Laurasia, comprised what are now Europe, Asia and North America.

Gondwana, The great supercontinent, Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania, Department of Environment, Parks, Heritage and the Arts

[katborg82]

The Neoarchean era began 2.8 billion years ago and lasted until 2.5 billion years ago. The cyanobacteria empire continued to evolve and diversify, even adapting to life on land. It is thought at this time that the land would actually start to turn green, not from plants yet, but rather the massive microbial ecosystems pumping oxygen into the atmosphere. During this era we would also see the planet's first supercontinent, named Kenorland

[daybreaksys]

Continuation of this

BEHOLD, MY CREATION

Also, croc-descendants and dinosaurs still exist because of course they do. And specially those commonly mentioned organisms which are older than dinosaurs and still exist

[at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system]

Pangea and Gondwana are beautiful names for a girl

[earthstory]

One of our readers in our inbox asked if we knew of any animations of the breakup of the Gondwana supercontinent and the motions of India into Eurasia that triggered the formation of the modern day Alpine-Himalayan Orogeny. While the exact details vary from model to model, most of them are quite similar and look like this: India, Australia, and Antarctica break away from Africa as the Karoo Large Igneous Province forms, new mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones are established, and India marches across the ocean towards its collision.