Friday, December 09, 2005

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Geologists witness 'ocean birth'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Geologists witness 'ocean birth': "Geologists witness 'ocean birth'
By Roland Pease
BBC science unit, San Francisco

Scientists say they have witnessed the possible birth of a future ocean basin growing in north-eastern Ethiopia.

The team watched an 8m rift develop in the ground in just three weeks in the Afar desert region last September."

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