By LiveScience Staff, posted: 02 November 2009 05:23 pm ET
A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.
The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied.
A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a sea is in the region's future.
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If you go to Google Earth Maps (http://maps.google.com/) and type in Ethiopia, I think you can see it on the Satellite Map view.........
Thanks!
Very interesting.
Just goes to show ya, Man can't restrict mother nature...Not in this case and not in the case of climate change.