July 20, 2006
Is the Red Sea Splitting Again?
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Geologists are studying a tectonic process that is occurring along a fault in Ethiopia's Afar desert, believed to be the largest single tear to have developed in the Earth's continental crust since satellite monitoring began. Satellite images indicate that the huge rift appeared in 2005 along a fault where the African and Arabian tectonic plates meet and has the potential to widen the Red Sea and change the configuration of the two continents themselves.
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