The Aurica hypothesis was created by scholars at the Geological Magazine[1] following an American Geophysical Union study linking the strength of ocean tides to the supercontinent cycle.
The study noted that "When tectonic plates slide, sink and shift the Earth's continents to form large landmasses, or supercontinents, ocean basins open and close in tandem.
Duarte and colleagues hypothesize that a new rift (the Baikal Rift Zone) will develop in central Eurasia through Lake Baikal due to the gravitational collapse of the Himalayan plateau, cutting from western India to the Arctic, which will split Eurasia in two resulting in western Pakistan and Russia to split apart from China, India, and Mongolia.
[1] Paleogeologist Ronald Blakey has described the next 15 to 85 million years of tectonic development as fairly settled and predictable, without supercontinent formation.
[3] Three hypothetical supercontinents—"Amasia", Christopher Scotese's "Pangaea Proxima", and Roy Livermore's "Novopangaea"—were illustrated in an October 2007 New Scientist article.