When we look at maps of the world, landmasses seem to be well distributed. Sure, there is more water than landmasses, but they are all spread out. Well, not really. If you grab a globe and turn it towards the Pacific Ocean, you can angle it in a way that the only thing you can see is water. On the opposite side, you can see plenty of land, if you focus on Africa, Europe, and Asia. So the question is, why are all the continents bunching up? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

We can blame it all on Pangea, and mostly on the supercontinent cycle . If we need to be nitpickers, the continents are actually still spreading out. The Atlantic Ocean is getting bigger and pushing the Americas away from Europe and Africa. Still, t

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