[DOC] [TLE] World Geography & Culture Online - Print Page - Facts on File [PAR] It lies in the Great Rift Valley between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Egypt ... 
Scientists believe it was formed 20 million years ago when the Earth's crust 
weakened and was torn apart, creating a jagged rift across Africa. Volcanoes ... 
cm) each year. The sea has an area of about 170,000 square mi (440,300 square 
km). [DOC] [TLE] Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean - Live Science [PAR] Nov 2, 2009 ... The same rift activity is slowly parting the Red Sea, too. ... This rifting formed the 
186-mile Afar depression and the Red Sea. The thinking is that the Red Sea will 
eventually pour into the new sea in a million years or so. ... Arabian Sea between 
Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia in eastern Africa. [DOC] [TLE] Plate Tectonics - Crystalinks [PAR] Africa Plate; Antarctic Plate; Indo-Australian Plate; Australian Plate; Eurasian .... 
Madagascar and the Australian continent, as well as the Arabian Peninsula and 
the .... The Pacific tectonic plate is not as rigid as scientists believe, according to 
... But about 100 million years ago, the tectonic plates tiled the planet as evenly 
as... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about BODIES OF WATER - StudyStack [PAR] SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THIS SEA WAS FORMED WHEN THE ARABIAN 
PENINSULA WAS TORN FROM AFRICA 20 MILLION YEARS AGO, RED SEA. 
IT'S THE... [DOC] [TLE] Saudi Aramco World : Arabia: Sand, Sea & Sky [PAR] 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... [DOC] [TLE] rift valley - National Geographic Society [PAR] Jun 15, 2015 ... Valles Marineris was formed millions of years ago, when the rocky Martian ... 
Turkana Boy is a 1.5-million-year old hominin skeleton unearthed in Kenya. 
Scientists think that the tectonic activity that created the East African Rift .... the 
Red Sea that separates the Sinai Peninsula from the Arabian Peninsula. [DOC] [TLE] seafloor spreading - National Geographic Society [PAR] Jun 8, 2015 ... Earth's newest crust is created at sites of seafloor spreadingred sites on ... The 
magnetism of mid-ocean ridges helped scientists first identify the ... was created 
as the African plate and the Arabian plate tore away ... This helps explain why 
sea levels have fallen dramatically over the past 80 million years. [DOC] [TLE] Red Sea | sea, Middle East | Britannica.com [PAR] The sea separates the coasts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea to the west from those 
of .... formed deep within the Earth under heat and pressure more than 540 
million ... The movement of Africa away from Arabia began about 55 million years 
ago. ... years ago, and the northern part of the Red Sea about 20 million years 
ago. [DOC] [TLE] ESA's Envisat satellite witnesses Earth's largest crack / Envisat ... [PAR] 20 July 2006. Scientists say the recent tear in the Earth's continental crust near 
the Red ... This process began some thirty million years ago when lava rose from 
... and separated the Arabian Peninsula from Africa, creating the Red Sea. ... is 
believed to be a similar tectonic process to the one that formed the Atlantic Ocean
. [DOC] [TLE] Continental Drift [PAR] Composite satellite image of Europe, North Africa, and the Arabian Penisula. ... 
Like other scientific revolutions, considerable time ... years ago the 
supercontinent of Pangaea began to split apart, ... nants should still lie below sea 
level. .... These folded mountain belts formed roughly 300 million years ago as 
the landmasses... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 1 Plate Tectonics - Volcano World [PAR] Describe in your own words how the Earth's layers were formed. ... Scientists 
believe these plates have been moving for millions of years. In fact ... About 180 
million years ago the supercontinent Pangea began to break up. ... building, 
while the far eastern region

Question: Scientists believe this sea was formed when the Arabian Peninsula was torn from Africa 20 million years ago
Answer: Red Sea