{"id":147461,"date":"2022-10-03T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/meet-amasia-earths-next-supercontinent-will-form-in-the-next-200-300-million-years"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:24:59","slug":"meet-amasia-earths-next-supercontinent-will-form-in-the-next-200-300-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/meet-amasia-earths-next-supercontinent-will-form-in-the-next-200-300-million-years","title":{"rendered":"Meet Amasia: Earth\u2019s next supercontinent will form in the next 200\u2013300 million years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hos7w8xrcEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at the Earth Dynamics Research Group and the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at New Curtin University have used a supercomputer to forecast what could be the likely effect of the movement of the giant tectonic plates.<\/p>\n<p><b>The formation of continents<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Over the past two billion years, the Earth\u2019s continents have collided to form a supercontinent on multiple occasions. Called the supercontinent cycle, this occurs every 600 million years and <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/you-wont-believe-how-the-world-looked-300-million-years-ago\" title=\"brings all the continents of the world\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">brings all the continents of the world<\/a> together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, researchers at the Earth Dynamics Research Group and the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at New Curtin University have used a supercomputer to forecast what could be the likely effect of the movement of the giant tectonic plates. The formation of continents Over the past two billion years, the Earth\u2019s continents have collided [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}