"ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin," scientists said Friday."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051210/ap_on_sc/ethiopia_new_ocean;_ylt=AkOMJWI_Mixh3jumjjnYH2NxieAA;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NmhocGZ1BHNlYwMxNzAw

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