By comparison, the temperature of crustal fluids can reach 400 degrees C at hydrothermal vents in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where tectonic plates are diverging and new oceanic crust is being formed.

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading ...

It is a north-south-trending mid-ocean ridge. Carlsberg Ridge 1 ... It helped to establish the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s. Your career begins here! At Jagranjosh.com, our vision ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely ... spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian ...