Silfra Fissure in Iceland, located in Þingvellir National Park, offers a unique opportunity to swim or snorkel between the ...

that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is involved actively in plate tectonics more than ever thought before. "This work refutes ...

New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center ...

The expedition also found that a continuous mountain-like ridge runs through the Atlantic to the southwest ... It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge. In 1953, American physicists Maurice Ewing ...

The team analyzed Mo isotopes in fresh basalts from the South Atlantic mid-ocean ridge (15–24°S). They discovered heavy Mo signatures similar to those found in arc basalts influenced by ...

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.