Birth of a New African Ocean

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 5, 2008 @06:53AM from the interesting-times-interesting-places dept.

Khemisty writes "Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one no scientist has ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Africa is splitting apart at the seams. From the southern tip of the Red Sea southward through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, the continent is coming unstitched along a zone called the East African Rift." This stretching of the earth's crust has been going on for 20 million years, and within another 10 million the Red Sea will have broken through to create a new sea.

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Re:Africa Become Flooded? by AndGodSed · 2008-10-05 07:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

Hey!
Get a clue. I am white and I live in Africa.
Geez - racist idiot...

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Re:Africa Become Flooded? by Hognoxious · 2008-10-05 07:47 · Score: 0, Redundant

That or he's a jaapie who didn't have an English grandad, and in consequence he's stuck there waiting for the day it all goes like Zimbabwe.

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