The puzzle pieces that are the continents we know today were at that point fused together at the end of the Paleozoic Era, and as of the early 1900s that pole-to-pole hunk of rock has been known as Pangaea – Greek for “all of Earth.”
People who now plan their days around routes that best pad the walking stats on their exercise app of choice would’ve had the opportunity to hike across one massive continent that made up all of our planet’s landmass. What if one day they suddenly sped up and smashed into a supercontinent again? Would you wake up to find yourself at the Mexican border?Īpproximately 270 million years ago, Earth would have been a step counter’s paradise. Right now they are slowly moving toward another collision. In the 4.5-billion-year history of Earth, our continents have changed their appearance many times… sometimes fusing together in crunching collisions, and sometimes breaking apart.
It may sound slow, but it does add up over hundreds of millions of years. These plates are floating on molten rock at the same speed your fingernails grow. This is because all seven continents sit on the tectonic plates that Earth’s crust is broken into. How long would this new Pangaea last for? Did you know the land below you is actually moving right now? What if one day the continents joined into one giant landmass again and you could travel from North America to Africa on foot?What country would become your new neighbor? Would this cause natural disasters all over the planet?
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