The newly discovered vents are located on the East Pacific Rise (EPR) near 10°N latitude, a part of the globe-spanning mid-ocean ridge volcanic mountain chain, where two tectonic plates are ...

Mountains and volcanoes rise along the seam. 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 ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

a mid-ocean ridge that extends along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean southern Europe There are however some important exceptions. The Hawaiian Islands, which are entirely volcanic in origin ...

Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic crust. The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines along which the Earth is ...