Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction ... By integrating seismic tomography and plate reconstructions, the researchers linked these geochemical signatures to the subduction ...

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.

Normal faults are typically found at divergent plate boundaries, such as mid-ocean ridges or continental rift zones. Reverse faults, in contrast, form in regions where the crust is being compressed.

The Gofar fault operates much like the San Andreas, in that two tectonic plates slide sideways past ... to see how it connects to the adjacent mid-ocean ridge. We are hopeful that additional ...

The Gofar fault operates much like the San Andreas, in that two tectonic plates slide sideways past each other ... but we haven’t yet been able to see how it connects to the adjacent mid-ocean ridge.

Between about 12,000 to 6,000 years ago, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian plates, may have increased by as much as 40%. "As ice volume ...

According to the team’s calculations, the motion of the North American continental plate may have sped up by 25% as the ice melted. At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which ...

Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / CDeepSea / University of Bergen / ROV Aegir6000 At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian ... between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain ...

This geographical phenomenon, known as the Eastern African Rift (EARS), is believed to have initiated around 22 million years ...