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The Pacific makes way for the next super continent

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The Pacific Ocean is shrinking. Can we walk from Australia to Indonesia in a few 100 million years? Credit: HUGHES HERVE/Hemis via AFP

Within the next 200 to 300 million years, a new supercontinent could emerge. For this to happen, the oldest ocean on earth, the Pacific Ocean, must give way. The process is already underway.


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By Barbara Barkhausen

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Within the next 200 to 300 million years, a new supercontinent could emerge. For this to happen, the oldest ocean on earth, the Pacific Ocean, must give way. The process is already underway.



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