A massive volcanic ridge beneath the Indian Ocean has just delivered a major surprise to geologists. According to a new study published in Nature Communications, the Kerguelen hotspot—the volcanic ...

A new research employing advanced geophysical techniques concludes that the ridge was formed by ... ranges or deep ocean trenches. Hotspots are special areas. Unlike most volcanic activity ...

The Ocean Ridge is formed when magma rising between diverging ... The Ocean Ridges are made up of elevated volcanic mountains and valleys, in general rising about 2000m from the adjacent ocean ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Mountains and volcanoes rise along the seam ... now eastern Africa will split from the continent to form a new landmass. A mid-ocean ridge would then mark the boundary between the plates.

These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mid-ocean ... which are entirely volcanic in origin, formed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean ...

That ridge, it was later discovered, extended through the major oceans of the world. It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge ... of the world's earthquakes and volcanoes occur at the plates' edges.

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...