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Originally Posted by pdurrant
A slight order of magnitude error. For example,
Africa is drifting towards Europe at about 0.02m/year. That means it'll take about 750,000 years for the Mediterranean to be cut off from the Atlantic.
Quite a short time in terms of Earth's history, but rather a long time in terms of recorded human history. Humans will jumble (or possibly unite) the nations of the world much more than 100 times faster than continental drift can mange it.  |
Yes, I wasn't meaning to imply continental drift operated on a scale of thousands of years - just pointing out that our various countries haven't always existed, and there will come a time (one way or another) when they will disappear.