Europe and America To Collide

Via the Christian Science Monitor:

… geological forces are slowly tugging Europe toward the Americas, with an estimated time of arrival of about 220 million years from now. In a study published in the current issue of the journal Geology, a team led by researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, say that they have discovered the first signs of the eventual closing of the Atlantic Ocean, in the form of an “embryonic” subduction zone off the coast of Portugal. ..

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