Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ... the Lost City Hydrothermal Field is the longest-lived venting environment known in the ocean. Nothing else like it has ...

Oceanographers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in California recently mapped a massive underwater mountain in the Pacific ... The region is under consideration to become the world’s first ...

The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down, the lava creates a long line of mountains under the ocean called the Mid ...

This tearing process has likely already occurred on the west side of the mountain range ... 2024 in the journal Solid Earth. The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean ...