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That was incredible to watch. I'm assuming that whole edifice collapsed due to the impact from the mining, right?
by edge17 6y ago
That was incredible to watch. I'm assuming that whole edifice collapsed due to the impact from the mining, right?
- carapace 6y agoYes, it collapsed because the miners dug a huge hole right next to the ocean. What's really crazy is that the Red Sea might have formed in a single event like this one but thousands of times bigger! I can't find a link now but, uh, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb#History > Paleo-environmental and tectonic events in the Miocene epoch created the Danakil Isthmus, a land bridge forming a broad connection between Yemen and Ethiopia. During the last 100,000 years eustatic sea level fluctuations have led to alternate opening and closing of the straits.