what will earths land masses and oceans look like in one billion year?
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To see a future map of the globe for +250 million years go here:\nhttp://www.scotese.com/future2.htm\n\nYou will see the "Pangea Ultima" with North and South America up against Africa, and Africa against Eurasia. Australia and Antarctica are joined again. The present day Indian Ocean may be a landlocked sea.\n\nIn one billion years it is likely that the process of combining and separation of plates will have completed itself several times. There is no realistic way of projecting the plate motion this far in the future, since the rate of motion may change over time as the earth's heating from internal sources of radioactive decay gradually decreases.\n\nHere are some decay series in case you want to see what rate of decay will eventually begin effecting the planet's tectonics.\nhttp://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/radser.html
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Scientists say that in 5,000,000,000 years, the sun will suddenly expand, probably all the way to Earth's orbit.  Even if it doesn't come this far, we will be fried. Before then, humanity may end, but Earth will still be here.
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There is no right answer for this question. Just because the plates are moving and right now most of the land mass is in the northern hemisphere. That is just where the bulk of it is right now, and someday it will change.
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I hope that in 5 billion years. We have somewhat evolved beyond this planet. Besides we won't have enough land or fossil fuels to last the next five hundred. I can hardly imagine five billion years from now.
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Predictions suggest that the range will increase until the Earth and Moon become double synchronised, that is, both are tidally locked to one another. The Earth-Moon distance would then be about 550000km. This won't occur for something like 50 billion years. Before then, though, our Sun will have died, and both the Earth and Moon almost certainly won't even exist.\n\nThis website for answer confirmation and more info  -->http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/apr2002/1020171327.As.r.html\n\nGod is spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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The earth as it was 100 million years ago.\n\nSimple really!
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continents - yes\n\ncountries - no
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Not sure but maybe this is what your looking for. 1998 Earth Observing System. Provides long term data sets of interactions between Earth's land , atmosphere, water, and life. \n 1998 Landsat-7  Continue the record of remote-sensing measurements of Earth's land surface.
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Around 7 billion and growing rapidly, unevenly in the different regions of Earth. It is expected that by the half of this century that number will double.... just imagine what we`ll do with the forest and wild life and the balance on the planet, carbon emissions....
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Ocean\n\nB/c we need to gain a greater understanding of where we live now (Earth), then prematurly pushing our limits in space. Space will come in time, but Earth cannot wait forever to be healed from our destruction.
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the earth is about 4.5 billion years old
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The worst thing that'll hurt the Earth is getting melted by the Sun when it grows from a small yellow star into a red giant star in about seven billion years, as estimated by astrophysical calculations.\n\nThe Sun will  transform all the hydrogen it has into helium by fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium nuclei. The helium will accumulate in the Sun's nucleus, and the Sun's volume will increase. Its temperature will also increase. As a consequence, In about three billion years, water in the Earth's oceans will evaporate. In about seven billion years, the Sun will ultimately swallow Mercury, and its temperature will be so high that the Earth's rocks will melt.\n\nAfter that, the Sun will have burned all the helium in it and shrink into a white dwarf star, so the Solar System, including the Earth, will freeze.\n\nThat will mark the end of the Earth, and so it will be the thing that will hurt it most.
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From the Wiki,\n\n"In about 5 billion years, the Sun will evolve into a red giant and then a white dwarf, creating a planetary nebula in the process."\n\nHumans will probably be long dead before then or will have moved on.  In a few billion years, the sun will get too hot for Earth to sustain life, but it'll be a while before it finally "blows up."  More accurately, it will actually implode and slowly become an inert mass.
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One constant throughout the history of the planet is change. Mountains rise are are eroded. Continents drift apart and slam back together. \n\ntwo million years is a drop in the bucket geologically speaking. It is speculated that the north american plate will drift east (about an 1" a year.) so in 2 million years, that'd be 2 million inches. or about 37 miles east.. Erosion causes great changes over time as well. No substantial feature changes will take place, except we will return to a ice age era (currently we are in an interglacial period indicative of warming, and ice sheet retreats.. In the 180,000 year cycles of ebb and flow of the ice sheets we are getting closer to the sun at this point, do the math to see where our planet would be in the ice cycle, in 2 million years. \n\nWill humans be part of the planet in 2 million years? Could be, or could not. It's likely some evolution of us will exist and maybe not on this planet. Perhaps terraforming of Mars will have re-established it's climate. Ideally the earth is at a distance from the sun that provides the best option for life in this solar system for the next 15 billion years until the sun goes super red. \n\nIn 40-50 years I won't care. In a hundred to a hundred and 20 years people born today won't care either.
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Yup. The latest will be 5 billion years from now, give or take a few hundred thousand. By then the sun will either:\n\n1) engulf our planet (very unlikely, but will come close enough to vaporize our planet)\n2) Die and not engulf or vaporize our planet and within days our atmosphere will freeze and fall to the earth in the form of ice.
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Well if you mean in terms of humans.  It would probably begin to recycle itself, Cars would rust, buildings would crumble from weathering, Animals would again flourish back home. and everything we thought about how to live would have to start from scratch if you believe in evolution.  But then again, earth has been destroyed about 30 times, from the results of asteroids, meteors, ice age and drought. but life did find a way right?... \nNow if you mean Earth completely empty of life all over animal or plant...  well then it would probably look like mars or a moon void of life and boring. with some clouds i guess.. Hope i answered correctly to your terms.
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The world will never end.  It will undergo progressive spiritualization, but great strides will be made in the mental and mind levels along this journey first.\n\nVast changes in the social and governmental structures will occur.\n\nThe next 1000 years will involve the most changes of all, but constitute only a very small part of the total journey.\n\nEventually, the world will join other perfected spheres.  \n\nThere is an amount of input from above both reciprocal to and approximately equal to what humans achieve.  \n\nAlthough humans do not exercise eminent domain in the true and final sense, once a mortal race is started on a sphere, they must evolve to perfection.  There are plans for transferring such a race of mortals to another sphere in the event some celestial calamity would destroy the entire planet.\n\nAlthough I know the foregoing for absolute sure, it took more than 50 years of seeking and study to determine this.  The certainty is not transferable, so you will have your doubts.  In that respect, you may wish to make some effort to check out the source.\n\nI would only remind you that Christ said, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven."\n\nThis is far from an idle wish.  It is a statement of fact, pertaining to the ultimate powers.