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A comment on Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010).

Re:Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010) by soyiuz on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @06:55PM (#13378628)
A map would be extremely useful to illustrate the process (instead of a picture of dirt). I am also not clear as to why the new waterway would be considered a "new ocean." Would it not just form a strait or at most a sea as a part of the Indian Ocean?
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Re:Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010) by prewett on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @11:57PM (#13379915)
It's so new that it isn't big enough to be an ocean yet. But if you wait a while, you'll see...
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