Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence.

This expedition was the first use of closely spaced echo sounders to map deep sea topography and the first to reveal the extent of the sea floor's ... now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge.

700 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean was a hydrothermal field, often described as a geological area where hot ...

Mid-Atlantic Ridge 1. Located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world. 2. It is a divergent plate or constructive plate. The Ocean Ridges are ...

The speed at which new ocean floor is created varies from one location on the ocean ridge to another. Between North America and Europe, the rate is about 2.2 inches (3.6 cm) per year. At the East ...

The process renews the ocean floor and widens the giant basins. A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ridge the longest mountain range in the world. On land ...

This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary, and the edges of the now-split continents get farther apart. The now fully-developed mid ocean ridge is the site of hot new ocean floor, and so ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...

The Atlantic Ocean is expanding ... across the ocean floor, creating the first large-scale, high-resolution imaging of the ...