At the turn of the millennium, researchers uncovered a site near the summit of an underwater mountain range in the mid-Atlantic ... and other gases into the ocean. While the mantle layer traps ...

Marie Tharp’s maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor did more than just reveal an underwater mountain range—they transformed the ...

An ocean floor pushed toward a land mass will ... Some pieces of land are thrust over or under other pieces. The result is a mountain range. The Himalayas, the highest mountains in the world ...

Instead of forcing the ground up, the two plates in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean are actually moving apart in opposite directions. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges. In addition ...