How do oceans start to close? New study suggests the Atlantic may ‘soon’ enter its declining phase

A new study by IDL researchers João Duarte and Filipe Rosas, resorting to computational models, predicts that a subduction zone currently below the Gibraltar Strait will propagate further inside the Atlantic and contribute to forming an Atlantic subduction system – an Atlantic ring of fire. This will happen ‘soon’ in geological terms - in approximately 20 million years.

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