LIGHTMEDIATION » danakil http://www.lightmediation.net/blog Agence de Reportages Photographiques Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The birth of an ocean in the hottest desert on Earth. http://www.lightmediation.net/blog/index.php/2008/05/06/the-birth-of-an-ocean-in-the-hottest-desert-on-earth/ http://www.lightmediation.net/blog/index.php/2008/05/06/the-birth-of-an-ocean-in-the-hottest-desert-on-earth/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 19:32:23 +0000 Thierry Tinacci http://www.lightmediation.net/blog/?p=356

The desert located in the triangle by the name of the tribes who live there, the people, in northern Ethiopia on the Erythrean border, is 155 000 km2 large. In this desert, considered as the hottest on Earth (max. 60° C) and maybe the most inhospitable, we witness in real time the spectacular genesis of an ocean! Here on a geological scale, inexorably, the African horn is drifting away from the continent, and under our eyes is undergoing one of the greatest achievement of Gaia, the creation of a mid ocean ridge within the African Great .

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