GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -According to researchers, every year the Pacific Ocean decreases in size by a few centimeters, and with depictions from a supercomputer, they expect a new continent will form in 200 to 300 million years.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though huge, the Pacific is getting smaller. It was once much wider when all the continents were joined together in the supercontinent, Pangea. The Pacific ocean basin is getting smaller because the Atlantic Ocean is opening and North America and South America are moving westward.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Pacific Ocean is shrinking by about an inch every year, and supercomputer simulations predict a new supercontinent called “Amasia” will form. The Pacific Ocean is shrinking. Every year, it gets about an inch smaller as the tectonic plates that the Americas sit on are pushed westward.

Detailed explanation-4: -Reducing by a few centimeters per year, the Pacific Ocean began shrinking during the age of the dinosaurs. Based on the new simulation, the Pacific Ocean’s current reach of 10, 000 kilometers (6, 213.7 miles) will close up in less than 300 million years.

Detailed explanation-5: -Since there are very few subduction zones in the Atlantic, Indian and Arctic oceans, these basins are expanding due to seafloor spreading.