Posted on 11/02/2009 12:05:11 PM PST by decimon
Sea change ping.
Interesting satellite image. You can see the fault in the ocean near Somalia and if you follow its path through Kenya, there is a line of lakes up until the big one, Lake Turkana. It almost looks like that entire section of Africa will split off.
Well, now, won’t this lower the ocean levels?
Hmmmmmm.... Maybe it doesn't take 50 billion years for significant geological events to manifest?
Seems like great news for Ethiopia. Their drought problems will abate.
"Scientists say they have witnessed the possible birth of a future ocean basin growing in north-eastern Ethiopia. The team watched an 8m rift develop in the ground in just three weeks in the Afar desert region last September. It is one small step in a long-term split that is tearing the east of the country from the rest of Africa and should eventually create a huge sea. " (BBC)
...after about a thousand years to recover from the massive seismic and thermal events that happen if this tear happens suddenly.
Bush’s fault.
Yeah, what you said. Instead of being inundated, ocean-front properties in Florida will suddenly find themselves considerable inland.
I wonder if it’s possible to buy land that is still under water.
I wonder if compression from this event caused compression that resulted in the Indonesian submarine quake/tsunami?
Wonder if any oil or gas is bubbling up?
Interesting
Damn that Global Warming!
It's the mechanism of the tectonic spreading that's the news, not the fact that a new ocean is in the making. That's been known for many years. Here's the news:
"Ayele's reconstruction of events showed that the rift did not open in a series of small earthquakes over an extended period of time, but tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days."
Yessss!! Now you’re thinking! Maybe some of those Florida deals from the 20’s will work out after all this time!
If it does, watch them come after you for 60 years of back property taxes, LOL.
Fight Plate Tectonics, NOW!
Maybe they could force the issue with a canal through Djibouti. The country, Djibouti.
We’ve-got-to-get-him-out-of-there ping
Too cool. I mean hot actually since this is a split in the earths crust, like the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
There has been a lot of seismic and volcanic activity lately, just as there was before the last ice age.
“Seems like great news for Ethiopia. Their drought problems will abate.”
Not directly, since it will most likley be salt water, but evaporation could create rain that might benefit an even larger region.
Anyway, still a long time to come.
Reunite Gondwanaland!
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