The Mediterranean Sea will not exist forever, because two large tectonic plates of the Earth are colliding with each other, so there is a high probability that in the distant future this sea will be erased from the face of the Earth.
According to researchers, the continents of our planet are in constant but very slow motion. In particular, the Earth’s crust is divided into tectonic plates that move above a semi-liquid upper mantle, causing the continents to regroup and form different geological features over the centuries.
“The present arrangement of the continents on Earth – Africa, Eurasia, America and so on – is only temporary. The configurations of the continents have changed dramatically in the past and will continue to change in the future due to the movement of tectonic plates”, the researchers explained, Noi.md reports quoting.
Scientists note that the main threat to the Mediterranean Sea is the gradual collision of the African plate with the Eurasian plate. About 100 million years ago, these two plates began to converge, gradually closing the ocean basins between them.
At the same time, this is just one plausible way that our planet’s tectonic plates could move. Finally, predicting the location of future continents is quite difficult due to the dynamic nature of plate tectonics and large timescales.
