Once I was a Desert............now I am an Ocean!


	Once I was a Desert............now I am an Ocean!

mountainpalm

11-3-2009 12:27 PM

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mountainpalm says:

The new ocean would connect to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, an arm of the Arabian Sea between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia in eastern Africa.

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11-5-2009 2:36 AM

chestnut501

Here's another good hi-res. of it I ran across

http://www.rochester.edu/news/photos/hi_res/hi511.jpg

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