Secrets of ocean birth laid bare


	Secrets of ocean birth laid bare

rmowery

7-19-2006 4:57 PM

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earth cracking, africa, oceans, rock bubbles, new land, new seas, environment

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				<img alt="ground rupture created during the September rifting event. Photograph by Tim Wright, University of Leeds/Oxford." src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41901000/jpg/_41901418_rift1_timwright_203.jpg" border="0" height="152" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="203">
				<div class="cap">The crack is 8m-wide in places</div>
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<b>The largest tear in the Earth's crust seen in decades, if not centuries, could carve out a new ocean in Africa, according to satellite data.</b>
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<font size="2">The 60km-long rift was initially sparked by an earthquake in September.
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