From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an undersea volcanic mountain chain.

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of ...

Enhanced spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge due to ice melting from Greenland may have contributed to that fiery past—allowing more magma to rise to the surface, fueling the eruption of ...

Moreover, the processes involved may have also caused up uptick in volcanic eruptions ... the Atlantic Ocean is a product of new oceanic crust being formed at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

We know that fresh mantle rock rises up at the mid-ocean ridges, where tectonic plates ... it collects and rises and erupts in submarine volcanoes. The cooling lava, transferring its heat to ...