A program designed to study the mid-ocean ridge system and enhance understanding of the relationship between the geological processes that lead to planetary renewal in the deep ocean and life forms ...

Multibeam bathymetry shows the morphology of a section of the Southeast Indian Ridge south of Australia. New research finds that highly variable seafloor morphology is controlled by changes in magma ...

The present solid Earth is actually active, with new plates generating in the mid-ocean ridges and some old plates sinking back into the interior through subduction zones. Subduction is thus a key ...

The human-occupied vehicle Alvin, during a dive on the East Pacific Rise, collected samples and recovered instruments placed at the vents during previous expeditions. Woods Hole, Mass (October 13, ...

The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where the Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously formed. This is ...

Sasha Wagner, association professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, holds some of the “old” rocks formed when carbon solidified after an underwater eruption. She led a team that happened upon an ...

Researchers will use two new autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)–Puma and Jaguar–in tandem to locate hydrothermal vent sites on the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean. (Credit: Illustration by E. Paul ...

San Juan, Puerto Rico – Scientists have discovered three new hydrothermal vent fields over a 434-mile-long stretch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the first scientific expedition aboard Schmidt Ocean ...

Did you know that the longest mountain range on Earth is hidden deep beneath the ocean? Mountains are vast parts of our world. They are prominent landforms that rise high above the ground. Mountains ...