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The movements of plate tectonics can be predicted based on their current rate and direction of movement (using present day GPS tracking and geological-timescale modeling). We can look at how plates have moved and interacted in the past and make reliable models to describe their future movements. The Pacific Ocean is slowly being eaten away by a series of subduction zones surrounding it, so it's possible that Australia/Asia will eventually collide with the west coast of the Americas in the distant future and the opening Atlantic will become much wider than it is now.

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