Uncle John's Bathroom Reader the World's Gone Crazy
“We’re doomed!A NEW OCEAN? In 2005 several earthquakes and a volcanic eruption struck an area known as the Afar Depression in northern Ethiopia. Just days later, geologists discovered a crack in the earth near the volcano. It began to grow, and it’s still growing today—it’s now more than 35 miles long, 25 feet wide, and, in some places, 130 feet deep. Geologists tell us that the quakes, eruption, and crack were all caused by the well-known phenomenon of plate tectonics; two of the Earth’s continental plates, which meet under the region, are drifting away from each other. That’s also the same process that formed the oceans—and, according to scientists, we are witnessing the beginning stages of the formation of a new sea. But it’s happening much faster than anyone ever thought possible. “The ferocity of what we saw during this episode stunned everyone,” says Cindy Ebinger of University of Rochester.
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