Further Reading

Fate of human constructs

• Farrier, D. (2020). Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Weisman, A. (2007). The World Without Us. Picador.
• Zalasiewicz, J. (2009). The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?. Oxford University Press.

Plate tectonics

• Scotese, C.R. (2021). "An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: The Seas Come In and the Seas Go Out". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 49: 679-728. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-081320-064052.
  • Supplementary Material
• Scotese, C.R. (2003). PALEOMAP Project. http://www.scotese.com.

Supercontinents

• Hoffman, P.F. (1999). "The break-up of Rodinia, birth of Gondwana, true polar wander and the snowball Earth". Journal of African Earth Sciences 28(1): 17-33. DOI: 10.1016/S0899-5362(99)00018-4.
• Li, Z.X.; Mitchell, R.N.; Spencer, C.J.; Ernst, R.; Pisarevsky, S.; Kirscher, U.; Murphy, J.B. (2019). "Decoding Earth’s rhythms: Modulation of supercontinent cycles by longer superocean episodes". Precambrian Research 323: 1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2019.01.009.
• Mitchell, R.N.; Kilian, T.M.; Evans, D.A.D. (2012). "Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time". Nature 482: 208-211. DOI: 10.1038/nature10800.
• Nance, R.D.; Murphy, J.B.; Santosh, M. (2014). "The supercontinent cycle: A retrospective essay". Gondwana Research 25: 4-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.026.
• Nield, T. (2007). Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet Harvard University Press.
• Yoshida, M. (2024). "Effects of the supercontinent cycle on the longest-term sea-level change from a simple conceptual and theoretical model". Gondwana Research 125: 425-445. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2023.06.015.
• Yoshida, M.; Santosh, M. (2014). "Mantle convection modeling of the supercontinent cycle: Introversion, extroversion, or a combination?". Geoscience Frontiers 5(1): 77-81. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2013.06.002.

Future continents

• Davies, H.S.; Mattias Green, J.A.; Duarte, J.C. (2018). "Back to the future: Testing different scenarios for the next supercontinent gathering". Global and Planetary Change, 169: 133-144. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.07.015.
  • Supplementary Material
• Davies, H.S.; Mattias Green, J.A.; Duarte, J.C. (2020). "Back to the future II: tidal evolution of four supercontinent scenarios". Earth System Dynamics 11: 291-299. DOI: 10.5194/esd-11-291-2020.
  • Supplementary Material
• Duarte, J.C.; Schellart, W.P.; Rosas, F.M. (2018). "The future of Earth's oceans: consequences of subduction initiation in the Atlantic and implications for supercontinent formation". Geological Magazine 155(1): 45-58. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756816000716.
• Farnsworth, A.; Eunice Lo, Y.T.; Valdes, P.J.; Buzan, J.R.; Mills, B.J.W.; Merdith, A.S.; Scotese, C.R.; Wakeford, H.R. (2023). "Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly". Nature Geoscience 16: 901-908. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01259-3.
• Hoffman, P.F. (1992). "Rodinia to Gonwanaland to Pangea to Amasia: alternating kinematics of supercontinental fusion". Atlantic Geology 28: 284-285.
• Huang, C.; Li, Z.-X.; Zhang, N. (2022). "Will Earth's next supercontinent assemble through the closure of the Pacific Ocean?". National Science Review 9(12): nwac205. DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwac205.
  • Steinberger, B. (2022). "Comment on 'Will Earth's next supercontinent assemble through the closure of the Pacific Ocean?'". National Science Review 9(12): nwac253. DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwac253.
    • Huang, C.; Li, Z.-X.; Zhang, N. (2022). "Reply to Comment by Steinberger on ‘Will Earth's next supercontinent assemble through the closure of the Pacific Ocean?’". National Science Review 9(12): nwac254. DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwac254.
• Mitchell, R. (2023). The Next Supercontinent: Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea. University of Chicago Press.
• van Hinsbergen, D.; Schouten, T. (2021). "Deciphering paleogeography from orogenic architecture: constructing orogens in a future supercontinent as a thought experiment". American Journal of Science 321: 955-1031. DOI: 10.2475/06.2021.09.
• Way, M.J.; Davies, H.S.; Duarte, J.C.; Mattias Green, J.A. (2021). " The Climates of Earth's Next Supercontinent: Effects of Tectonics, Rotation Rate, and Insolation". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22: e2021GC009983. DOI: 10.1029/2021GC009983.
  • Supplementary Material
• Williams, C.; Nield, T. (2007). "Pangaea, the comeback". New Scientist.
• Yoshida, M.; Santosh, M. (2011). "Future supercontinent assembled in the northern hemisphere". Terra Nova 23: 333-338. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01018.x.

Animations

• "300 Million Years of the Future World", by Algol.
• "Future of California", by Christopher Scotese.
• "Future Plate Motions & Pangea Proxima", by Christopher Scotese.
• "What the Future Holds", by Christopher Scotese.

Tides and tidal cycles

• Mattias Green, J.A.; Molloy, J.L.; Davies, H.S.; Duarte, J.C. (2018). "Is There a Tectonically Driven Supertidal Cycle?". Geophysical Research Letters 45: 3568-3576. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL076695.
• Mattias Green, J.A.; Duarte, J.C. (2022). A Journey Through Tides. Elsevier.

Fate of Earth and the universe

• O'Malley-James, J.T.; Greaves, J.S.; Raven, J.A.; Cockell, C.S. (2013). "Swansong biospheres: refuges for life and novel microbial biospheres on terrestrial planets near the end of their habitable lifetimes". International Journal of Astrobiology 12(2): 99-112. DOI: 10.1017/S147355041200047X.
• O'Malley-James, J.T.; Cockell, C.S.; Greaves, J.S.; Raven, J.A. (2014). "Swansong biospheres II: the final signs of life on terrestrial planets near the end of their habitable lifetimes". International Journal of Astrobiology 13(3): 229-243. DOI: 10.1017/S1473550413000426.

Speculative evolution

• Curious Archive (2022). "The Evolution of Speculative Evolution".
• Naish, D. (2014). "Of After Man, The New Dinosaurs and Greenworld: an interview with Dougal Dixon". Tetrapod Zoology.
• Naish, D. (2014). "The Past, Present, and Future of Speculative Zoology". TetZooCon 2014, London.
• Naish, D. (2018). "Speculative Zoology, a Discussion". Tetrapod Zoology.
• Thomas, B.G. (2019). "The History of Speculative Zoology".
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

Future evolution

• Boulay, M.; Steyer, S. (2015). Demain, Les Animaux du Futur. Belin.
• Dixon, D. (1981). After Man: A Zoology of the Future. St. Martins Press.
  • Documentary
• Dixon, D. (1990). Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future. St. Martins Press.
• Dixon, D.; Adams, J. (2002). The Future is Wild. Firefly Books.
  • Television Series
    • Original Animal Planet Version
  • Website
• Jakub, L. (2018). "Wild Speculation: Evolution After Humans". The New York Review.
• Nguyen, M. (2021). "The animals that may exist in a million years, imagined by biologists". Vox.
• Ramjet, N. (2006). All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man.
• Stapledon, O. (1930). Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future. Methuen Publishing.
• Tatalovic, M. (2019). "Strange evolution: The weird future of life on Earth". BBC.
• Ward, P. (2001). Future Evolution. W.H. Freeman.
• Weintraub, P. (1982). "Visions of Man Evolved". Omni Magazine November 1982.

Other links

• Blue Chimera: A directory of links to speculative evolution projects.
• Specposium: A speculative evolution conference.
• Timeline of the far future (Wikipedia).

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