The widening of the Atlantic Ocean is a product of new oceanic crust being formed at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. University of ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...

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 ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

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

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 ...

“Over two-thirds of the Earth’s surface was formed by volcanic eruptions at these mid-ocean ridges,” said Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist and Maggie Walker Dean of the UW College of the ...

“The mid-oceanic ridge thus made a triumphal entry into tectonics, and became, on a stroke, the most important structure in the world,” he wrote. This was the early 1960s, however, and he was ...

Over the last few decades, researchers have reported similar ancient zircon populations in unexpected places—like mid-ocean ridges and remote hotspot islands including Hawai’i and the Galápagos.