How the world could look in 250m years

With Earth’s tectonic plates constantly moving, renowned geologist Christopher Scotese predicts a new super-continent will emerge in around 250 million years, dubbed Pangaea Proxima


PANGAEA – 200 million years ago
Eurasia
North America
Africa
South America
India
Antarctica
Australia

Early dinosaurs roamed last super-continent, formed from collision of older land masses


PRESENT DAY
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean

Atlantic widens by 2.5cm every year. Scotese predicts this will reverse and ocean will shrink dramatically


PANGAEA PROXIMA – 250 million years from now
North America
Africa
Europe
Asia
South America
Antartica
India
Australia
New Zealand

Cape Town
Lima
New York
Atlantic Sea
London
Cairo
Delhi
Moscow
Shanghai
Sydney
Tokyo
Pacific Ocean

New mountain range
 

Sources: Christopher Scotese (Paleomap Project), The Economist, National Geographic 
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