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.

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

The simulation especially focused on the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge — the area where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet. That feature runs through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...

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

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely ... spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian ...

“The ocean bottom, we know, is very complex. It has all these features that are fascinating for many reasons—for example, the ...

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 scientists discovered that this global thaw may have also had unexpected consequences—including for plate tectonics ... spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the ...