Birth of a New African Ocean

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:Red Sea tag suggestion:

[dogdick]

you guys believe in 'facts' from a book written by people that thought the world was flat.

Re:Red Sea tag suggestion:

[aproposofwhat]

People believe because they have to, and they have the right to believe what they want.

Just as I have the right to tag them as idiots if they believe in Bronze Age myths :P