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Birth of an Ocean: How It Works

Africa is splitting apart at the seam, making way for a new ocean.

 
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From the Afar Depression of northeastern Ethiopia southward 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, the African continent is coming unstitched in a process called continental rifting.
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