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

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

"We have this amazing image of this particular section of the Gofar fault, but we haven't yet been able to see how it connects to the adjacent mid-ocean ridge. We are hopeful that additional ...

"We have this amazing image of this particular section of the Gofar fault, but we haven't yet been able to see how it connects to the adjacent mid-ocean ridge. We are hopeful that additional ...