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Where's the beach?(EARTH/TECTONICS)
Beachgoers may have a new vacation spot. An ocean may be starting to form in an African desert.
On September 14, 2005, an earthquake struck Ethiopia's Afar Desert. Afterwards, scientists watched as the desert surface cracked open along a rift, or boundary along which two slowly moving rock plates separate. Over three weeks, the ground pulled apart 4 meters (13 feet), along a 60 kilometer (37 mile)-long crack.
Oceans are known to form along this type of boundary. And the recent sighting is helping geologists understand that process. When magma, or molten rock, rises from deep underground, it pushes the rock plates apart. As the plates separate over time, a valley grows in between. Eventually, water from an adjacent ...
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