This crust cycling is referred to as the supercontinent cycle.

Continental collisions are a critical part of the Supercontinent cycle and have happened many times in the past.

Diversity, as measured by the number of families, follows the supercontinent cycle very well.)

The hypothetical supercontinent cycle is, in some ways, the complement to the Wilson cycle.

Supercontinent cycles are not the same as the Wilson cycle, which is the opening and closing of an individual oceanic basin.

The Wilson cycle rarely synchronizes with the timing of a supercontinent cycle.

As part of the supercontinent cycle, plate tectonics may create a supercontinent within 250 million-350 million years.

There is a progression of tectonic regimes that accompany the supercontinent cycle:

Consistent with the supercontinent cycle, Pangaea Ultima could occur within the next 250 million years.

Supercontinent cycle, the quasi-periodic aggregation and dispersal of Earth's continental crust.

Different tracts rift apart, collide and recoalesce as part of a grand supercontinent cycle.

According to this model supercontinent cycles did not operate before 0.6 Ga during the Ediacaran Period.

There will also be a climatic effect of the supercontinent cycle that will amplify this further:

Both reflect the supercontinent cycle.

Their fluctuations somewhat mirror Precambrian supercontinent cycles.

This marks the completion of the current supercontinent cycle, wherein the continents split apart and then rejoin each other about every 400-500 million years.

A supercontinent cycle is the break-up of one supercontinent and the development of another, which takes place on a global scale.

The Wilson cycle of seabed expansion and contraction (also conversely called the Supercontinent cycle) bears his name.

Study of these rocks shows that the eon featured massive, rapid continental accretion (unique to the Proterozoic), supercontinent cycles, and mountain building.

However supercontinent cycles and Wilson cycles were both involved in the creation of Pangaea and Rodinia.

LIPs have played a major role in continental breakup, continental formation, new crustal additions from the upper mantle, and supercontinent cycles.

Pangaea's supercontinent cycle is a good example for the efficiency of using the presence, or lack of, these entities to record the development, tenure, and break-up of supercontinents.

The "great" unconformities of regional or continental scale (in both geography and chronology) are associated with the supercontinent cycle, the periodic merger of all the continents into one approximately every 500 million years.

Because this model shows that exceptional demands on the paleomagnetic data are satisfied by prolonged quasi-integrity, it must be regarded as superseding the first model proposing successive supercontinent cycles before 0.6 Ga.

The overall process of repeated cycles of creation and destruction of oceanic crust is known as the Supercontinent cycle, first proposed by Canadian geophysicist and geologist John Tuzo Wilson.