From orbital, to climatic, to tectonic evolution, many aspects of the Earth’s dynamics feature high degrees of cyclicity and episodicity, which can give us important insights into how the Earth’s works. The supercontinent cycle is an example capturing the Earth’s grandest scales and this week EGU geodynamics blog editor Tobias Rolf takes a closer look at it. Pangaea. This is a familiar term to eve ...[Read More]
The Supercontinent Cycle
This is how the Earth’s continents may(!) have assembled into a new supercontinent in ~200 Myr from now. Note that many possible scenarios have been proposed. This one is called ‘Novopangea', but others are ‘Pangea Ultima’, ‘Amasia’ or ‘Aurica’. The color coding indicates predicted tidal amplitude at 200 Myr, where deep purple corresponds to 0 meters and bright yellow to 2 meters. (From Davies et al., 2020).