Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

For decades, scientists have sought reliable ways to reconstruct Earth’s ancient history, deciphering geological events that ...

After Albert’s explanation of Afar’s volcanic and tectonic past, I will look into this region’s Holocene volcanism, and try to create the first comprehensive volcanic history of this very ...

Current velocities were measured with a 150 kHz Teledyne RD 206 Ocean Surveyor Acoustic ... recruited from sediments. This could not be observed at Norskebanken, potentially related to the rocky sea ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

A team of researchers has found an unusual spike in beryllium-10 levels in the Pacific seabed, dating back 10 million years.

A new publication by researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford shows that the ...

it uses metal wire to build the structure layer-by-layer to make sure the habitat can withstand the immense pressure of the deep ocean. "We are manufacturing in a smarter way. Rather than breaking ...

According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers found an unexpected surge of the radioactive ...

When he and his colleagues at the French Institute for Ocean ... deepest layers of sediment – dating to before 1941 – had traces of plankton called dinoflagellates that were strikingly ...

They found evidence that naturally occurring “battery rocks” on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, some 13,000 feet below the surface, were producing oxygen. These potato-sized lumps of metal ...