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tution. Within 25 million years, the Persian Gulf will disappear as a widening "Red Ocean" pushes Saudi Arabia into Iran.
Scientists disagree over how the Red Sea, now about 190 miles across at its widest point, was formed. Some argue that, because the facing coastlines fit together nicely, the Asian and African continents, once united, broke apart abruptly. Others say that the African and Arabian tectonic plates separated gradually, their edges stretching a...