The water near the bottom shimmered ... out of vents into the 3-degree Centigrade ocean water. A dusting of white lay around the vents, and in some places, had accumulated so high as to look ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull ... by as much as 0.3 inches a year in some places. Volcanic and geologic evidence in Ethiopia ...