Monday, November 09, 2009

A Crack Opens in the Ethiopian Landscape, Preparing the Way for a New Sea

Discover Magazine
Discover Magazine
In 2005, the earth cracked open in Ethiopia. Two volcanic eruptions shook the desert, and a 35-mile-long rift opened in the land, measuring 20 feet wide in ...
“The ocean’s formation is happening slowly, likely to take a few million years. It will stretch from the Afar depression (straddling Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti) down to Mozambique” [ABC News]. read more

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