Is California still supposed to break off and sink into the Paciffic?

Question

I just didn't know if people were still saying this was going to happen.

Also, will anyone else be dancing on the shore of the cool blue serenity called Arizona Bay when[if] it does happen?

Answer 1

yes, the earth's core will heat up due to the expansion of the sun and Californea will fall into the Pacific

Answer 2

California contains the San Andreas Fault

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San Andreas Fault is a geologic transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) through California in the United States. The fault's motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal motion). It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate

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Most transform faults are found on the ocean floor, where they often offset active spreading ridges to form a zigzag plate boundary. However, the most well known transform faults are found on land.

Transform faults comprise one of the three types of plate boundaries in plate tectonics. This term was proposed by J. Tuzo Wilson in 1965 and he particularly recognized the concept in the case of the transverse strike-slip faults along which mid-oceanic ridges are off-set.

Because of the above know-en information it is believed that the area along the fault will eventually become ocean floor.

If I am not mistaken there is a subduction zone on the ocean floor off the coast.This is where the continental shelf folds under the ocean floor. This is the same geological formation that creates intense heat melting rock and forming volcanic activity like that of Hawaii

So to make this long story short; YES California is still supposed to break off and sink into the Pacific!

REMEMBER I said long story these geological events happen slowly  over thousands if not tens of thousands of years! There is the occasional major event know-en as an EARTHQUAKE!!!  Some more violent then others.

Hope this makes sense as an answer.

Answer 3

It's not going to sink into the Pacific and disappear, but it is eventually going to break away from the U.S. and end up somewhere by Alaska.

Answer 4

I wish it would

Answer 5

No.  California's bedrock is continental crust and will not subduct in oceanic crust, just like a cork will not sink in water.  California will continue to be split apart by movement along the San Andreas Fault and given enough time the fault may split into several segments and create islands of what is left of California.  Then the islands will erode down to sea level.  That process will take some 10 to 50 million years.

The answer to your second question is maybe, if people are still around someone will dance, or some other life form has evolved that had learned to dance.