Shrinking ancient sea may have spawned Sahara Desert

Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 10:40 in Earth & Climate

The Saharan Desert probably formed 7 million years ago as the ancient Tethys Sea, the forerunner of the Mediterranean Sea, shrank.

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