Where will be all the continents after 200 million years ?

By Umang Rajpurohit

You may have heard the line that 'man never stops' so does our planet and all the continents. If we talk from the perspective of quantum physics it is valid. Everything is moving. It may be out from the topic but even in spirituality or say psychology it talks about thought even that nevers stops. But we are talking in sense of continents so let's stick to that only.

If we talk about continents and not talk about Wegener it will be injustice. So let's start with him only. Alfred wegener was a german climatologist who studied and researched on continents for almost his life and come with a conclusion, a theory which is famous as wegener's theory of continental drift. For understanding that in wide, we should know the continental drift theory in detail.

Wegener's theory of Continental drift

Alfred wegener gave his theory of the continental drift in the year 1912 in which he explained in detail and no other person has given account of continents in that much detail. So, as per the wegener's theory that all the continents formed a mega continent which he named 'Pangaea'(meaning all the earth) and all the oceans formed a mega ocean 'Panthalassa'(meaning all the ocean). 

So, according to his wegener around 200 million years ago the the land which he named pangaea started to break into pieces and in the starting phase there broke two continental masses known as Gondawana land and laurasia. After a period of time those two land masses started to break into even smaller parts and that's how we got all our continents. 

The gondwana land is present times india, south africa, australia and south america and all the other continents are parts of laurasia. He supported his theory by giving many evidences like he found out that if we match all the continents they are more like a jig-saw puzzle and all of the continents can be matched other than that he gave the evidences in which he has proved that the gold deposits found on the coasts of ghana is also found on the coast of west part of south america.

He also gave details about the two identical species of plants and animals found on the two continents and also believed that the madagascar island was once part of the african continent but due to the drift it got away from the continent and further found that the lemurs were found on both the land masses.

So what really will happen after 200 million years ?

As per the theory of alfred wegener the continents will keeping moving in the upcoming time not at that much rate but still they will move forward in the direction of the north pole. Some scientists stated that continental drift was the reason behind the formation of the himalayan mountains. 

As the theory says and the present geologists and geographers has stated that other than the continent Antarctica(which is in the lowest part of the globe and located in the south pole),all the continents will be joined at the north pole.

By that, you can say that the history will repeat itself. Because around 200 million years ago all the continents were a huge land mass and was one as it was a huge land mass and after around 200 million years the continents will be joined at the north pole.