In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

It demarcates the boundary between two plates. It is a divergent zone where Ocean plates are born, spreading apart from the central valley, or axial trough. The Ocean Ridge is formed when magma ...

A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the ...

At ocean-ocean convergences ... volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle rises toward the ...

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence.

In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts ... perhaps to reappear much later at a distant divergent boundary.

Here is a nice summary of sedimentation on divergent margins ... the new ocean basin gets wider and wider. New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary, and the edges of the now-split ...

It's an underwater chain of mountains 47,000 miles long. The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland), around Africa, through the Indian Ocean, between Australia and ...