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Giant Crack In Ethiopian Desert Will Eventually Create New Ocean

Written by News One on November 5, 2009 12:49 pm

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From Yahoo News:

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.

The same rift activity is slowly parting the Red Sea, too.

Using newly gathered seismic data from 2005, researchers reconstructed the event to show the rift tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days. Dabbahu, a volcano at the northern end of the rift, erupted first, then magma pushed up through the middle of the rift area and began “unzipping” the rift in both directions, the researchers explained in a statement today.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/G-WIN/ G-WIN

    Giant Crack In Ethiopian Desert
    wow there is a giant crack((base)) has hit hoods(ghettos) of america
    they dont have this on a big news coverage(on yahoo)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/G-WIN/ G-WIN

    Giant Crack In Ethiopian
    ETHIOPIAN IS IN AFRICA(BESIDES THEY NEED ANOTHER OCEAN(BODY OF FRESH WATER)
    THERE ANYWAY FOR THE STARVING KIDS AND PERENTS
    BUT THERE’S A GAINT CRACK IN BLACK AMERICA HAS HIT
    (HOODS((GHETTEOS)) SOME OF THE YOUNG BLACK MALES AND FEMALES HIT BY THE
    GAINT CRACK((BASE)) IN MOSTLY EVERY MAJOR CITY ACROSS THE USA
    BUT DO YAHOO CARES ” NO ” SAD THOUGH(TALK BOUT GAINT CRACK IN AFRICA
    CITY OF ETHIOPIAN THAT IS NOT IMPORTING YAHOO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    water = life
    “Aquarius” = pouring the waters of life/wisdom

    The Universe/Nature and Man is linked without any doubt. As above, So Below. As In Heaven, So On Earth……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    I love how they are predicting this happening in a million years…I guess nobody can call them crazy with this bogus scientific study.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    Guess Colombia isn’t the only country with a crack problem!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AMANORFIRE82/ AMANORFIRE82

    Christianity started in Ethiopia thats why

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    Same thing happened years ago when the whole land mass were all joined together.That’s how you have black people all over the world, so there’s no surprise here.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LJSPACEMAN/ LJSPACEMAN

    Hmmm , dirt filters out the salt creating fresh water.That’s one deep fresh water well.

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