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

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

“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 ...

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

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth’s crust (purple arrows). Credit: Tao Yuan and Shijie Zhong Melting ...