This sea formed millions of years ago when the Arabian Peninsula & Africa "parted"
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Hurghada-SIS - State Information Service  The Red Sea was created by the movement of plates on the Earth's surface about 30 million years ... Twenty million years ago another geological movement started. The Arabian Peninsula which parted from Africa started to move to the North.
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J! Archive - Show #3100, aired 1998-02-06  Over 30 movies have been made from my works, including "Maximum .... This sea formed millions of years ago when the Arabian Peninsula & Africa "parted"...
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Egypt: About the Red Sea of Egypt - Tour Egypt  The Red Sea was created by the movement of plates in the Earths surface about 30 million years ago. ... Twenty million years ago another geological movement started. The Arab peninsula which parted from Africa, started to move to the north.
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Eritrea - Red Sea  The Red Sea was created by the movement of plates in the Earth's surface about 30 million years ago ... Twenty million years ago another geological movement started. The Arab peninsula which parted from Africa, started to move to the north.
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Introduction - Erez Boym - UK Diving Places To Dive  At that time the Arab peninsula (Saudi, Yemen) started to part from Africa along a thin break line ... That way a very thin ocean was formed, much thinner than the Red Sea of today. ... 20 million years ago another geological movement started, the Arab peninsula which was parted from Africa started to move to the north.
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Saudi Aramco World : Arabia: Sand, Sea & Sky  Arabia. Sand, Sea & Sky. Written by John Lawton and Miranda McQuitty ... credit to the scientists of the Saudi wildlife commission who advised him. ... 30 million years, when the Arabian Peninsula broke away from the African ... The fleet-footed saluki is believed to have originated in southern Arabia 8000 years ago and has...
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ATLANTIS - The Waves That Destroyed the Minoan Empire (Atlantis ...  It is here that western civilization began, and the island of Crete, located in the ... ished in the islands of the Aegean Sea and spread throughout the Mediterranean a ... Archaeological evidence also con firms that around 1480 B.C. some great .... and other Aegean islands were the mythical lost continent of Atlantis, which has...
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Red Sea - definition of Red Sea by The Free Dictionary  A long narrow sea between northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. ... Red Sea - a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked...
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Pangea | supercontinent | Britannica.com  Jun 10, 2016 ... Pangea was surrounded by a global ocean called Panthalassa, and it ... Earth's continents were once joined together into the supercontinent ... The oldest of those supercontinents is called Rodinia and was formed during Precambrian time some one billion years ago. ... Learn More in these related articles:.
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Red Sea - Wikipedia  The Red Sea (also the Erythraean Sea) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between .... Several canals were built in ancient times from the Nile to the Red Sea along or near the .... The rich diversity is in part due to the 2,000 km (1,240 mi) of coral reef extending along its coastline; these fringing reefs are 50007000...
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Asia - 8 | Britannica.com  Results 601 - 700 of 800 ... In its western highlands, along the Red Sea, lies the Hejaz, which. ... Shyok River river of the Kashmir region, in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. It rises in the ... Sinai Peninsula triangular peninsula linking Africa with Asia and occupying an area of 23,500 square miles (61,000 square km).
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Red Sea | sea, Middle East | Britannica.com  Red Sea, Arabic Al-Bar Al-Amar , narrow strip of water extending southeastward from Suez, Egypt, for about 1,200 miles (1,930 km) to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, ..... ancient formation (in Africa (continent): Formation of the Red Sea); Asia (in Arabian Desert: Geology) .... Refer to the style manuals for more information.
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Arabian Sea - Wikipedia  The Arabian Sea is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by northeastern Somalia and the Arabian Peninsula, and on the east by India. Historically the sea has been known by other names including the ... The Gulf of Aden is in the southwest, connecting the Arabian Sea to the Red...
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Arabian Sea - Wikipedia  The Arabian Sea is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by northeastern Somalia and the Arabian Peninsula, and on the east by India. Historically the sea has been known by other names including the Erythraean Sea and the Persian Sea. ... The Gulf of Aden is in the southwest, connecting the Arabian Sea to the Red...
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HW# 10 Why is Mesopotamia called the fertile crescent? Cite ...  Oct 1, 2013 ... Mesopotamia names a specific region in the Fertile Crescent, Fertile Crescent ... Mesopotamia was land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. ...... Take into example the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red sea, .... The Mesopotamia was the first civilization created in history; therefor it has all of...
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The Great Lakes by Kaitlin Cushman on Prezi  May 27, 2015 ... The Great Lakes were formed about 20,000 years ago. ... so heavy and powerful that it gouged out the earth's surface to create lake basins.
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Arabia | peninsula, Asia | Britannica.com  Aug 10, 2016 ... The Arabian Peninsula is bounded by the Red Sea on the west and southwest,... ... opportunities and problems for the peoples and countries of the peninsula. ... The stretch from the Gulf of Aqaba to a point about 200 miles south of Mecca is .... The gravel plain of Al-Dibdibah lies inland southwest of Kuwait.
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Red Sea | sea, Middle East | Britannica.com  Narrow strip of water extending southeastward from Suez, Egypt, for about 1200 miles ... Sudan, and Eritrea to the west from those of Saudi Arabia and Yemen to the east. ... Normally, the Red Sea is an intense blue-green; occasionally, however, it is ... that separates two great blocks of Earth's crustArabia and North Africa.
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Europe: Human Geography - National Geographic Society  Jan 4, 2012 ... Europe is often described as a peninsula of peninsulas. ... Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean, Black, ... territory of the Alps. Around 400 CE, the Alemanni, a Germanic tribe, ..... to put at risk. .... If you have questions about licensing content on this page, please contact...
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Ocean Basins - sea, depth, oceans, temperature, important, largest ...  The Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans are conventional ocean basins and are ... the line of shallowest depth between Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula. ... a rift opened up in the supercontinent of Gondwana, resulting in the separation of ... long, connecting Cape Agulhas at the southern end of Africa with Antarctica,...
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Arabian Peninsula - Wikipedia  The Arabian Peninsula, simplified Arabia is a peninsula of Western Asia situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian plate. From a geological perspective, it is considered a subcontinent of Asia. It is the largest peninsula in the world, at 3,237,500 km2 (1,250,000 sq mi). ... The peninsula's constituent countries are (clockwise north to south) Kuwait,...