Monday, December 12, 2005
New Ocean being Formed in Africa
"The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting on a 37-mile long fissure that split open in September in the Afar desert in Ethiopia that could be the start of a new ocean forming. The fissure, which grew 8 meters wide in 3 weeks following an earthquake on Sept 14, is now splitting at about 0.8 inches per year, would eventually lead to Ethiopia eastern portions becoming an island in a million years or so. The findings were presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting taking place in San Francisco this week. The BBC reports that formation of a ocean basin is the first step toward developing an ocean, but that it will be millions of years before that could occur."
source:http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/10/1613210&tid=99&tid=14
source:http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/10/1613210&tid=99&tid=14
# posted by dark master : 12/12/2005 09:45:00 AM
