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Continents in 1.5 billions years?
Topic Started: Mar 2 2017, 06:16 AM (704 Views)
PortentosaMan Mar 2 2017, 06:16 AM Post #1
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Is it possible to know how the continents will look like in 1.5 billions years?
The project I am working with is set in the far future and is about the last land vertebrates, and the very last multicellular animals further in the future.

Here is a sketch from the project. I do not want to release the name of it yet.
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Dakka! Mar 2 2017, 07:30 AM Post #2
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That drawing is really realistic.
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Beetleboy Mar 2 2017, 08:05 AM Post #3
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Wonderful drawing! I can't wait to see more of your work, I sense some potential here.
As for the continents, it isn't really known what they will look like this far in the future. I would do some research as far into the future as you can, then try and guess from there. I have been doing a lot of research into future geography and climates recently, but I have only gone as far as 50 myh, so I can't help you a great deal here.
However, others may be able to offer for advice and info.
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PortentosaMan Mar 2 2017, 08:14 AM Post #4
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Wonderful drawing! I can't wait to see more of your work, I sense some potential here.
As for the continents, it isn't really known what they will look like this far in the future. I would do some research as far into the future as you can, then try and guess from there. I have been doing a lot of research into future geography and climates recently, but I have only gone as far as 50 myh, so I can't help you a great deal here.
However, others may be able to offer for advice and info.
Thank you! I have many many more drawings, but they are more technical drawings of the animals. Some of the animals will maybe a little controversial, like one insect with fully erect legs, like a dog!
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Beetleboy Mar 2 2017, 08:16 AM Post #5
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Sounds awesome! Can't wait to see them. If you need any help or advice feel free to let me know. :)
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whachamacallit2 Mar 2 2017, 11:10 AM Post #6
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To be honest, you can more or less make up the continental placement with that time scale. Even continent placement maps set a few tens of millions of years in the future are fairly speculative. For example, many people (including myself!) assume that East Africa will eventually rift apart from the rest of the continent, but there's a good chance it'll fail to rift. And that's just an assumption a few million years from now!

So as long as you put some logic in your assumptions, you should be fine in your continent distribution. But a couple of tips:

-By 1.5 billion years, the continents will look unrecognizable in comparison to today's continents. You probably shouldn't be able to pick out what continent is North America, since pieces of it will be attached to other bits and may be on the other side of the world by that point.

-By 1.5 billion years, the oceans are probably going to start evaporating away due to increasing luminosity from the sun, which may cause continental movement to slow down-so landscapes may look super eroded. Mountains would probably look a bit small.
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PortentosaMan Mar 2 2017, 11:19 AM Post #7
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Ok. Good to know I can have some artistic freedom with geology.
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