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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time
Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...
Is the Pacific Plate cracking? Study finds surprising evidence of internal stress
In a development that could reshape our understanding of tectonic movement, scientists have found massive fractures forming ...
The Trump Administration Wants Seafloor Mining. What Does That Mean?
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...
WWII bomber found on Pacific Ocean floor — with a bomb still attached and vintage car on board
NOAA Ocean Exploration sent cameras inside the wreck over the Easter holiday weekend and three planes were located in the ...
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44 years later, confirmed — Strange signals detected at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean
A group of scientists ventured into an adventure and performed one of the first deep-sea mining activities on the Pacific ...
‘Giant’ monolith discovered towering on Pacific floor, NOAA says. ‘Super weird’
A massive stone monolith has been found protruding from the Pacific Ocean seafloor like a giant finger, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration. The pillar is 49 feet high, 36 feet long and 13 feet wide, ...
Ancient volcanic mystery: 120-million-year-old super-eruption traced back to its source
Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...
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Is The Pacific Ocean Floor Being Ripped Apart?
Our understanding of our own planet is still changing and a relatively new theory about how plate tectonics works.
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Hidden connection unites the largest volcanoes in the Pacific
One hotspot may have formed the Pacific’s largest volcanoes, linking the Ontong-Java Plateau to the Louisville Ridge.
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WWII bomber found on Pacific Ocean floor — with a bomb still attached and vintage car on board
A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean ... NOAA Ocean Exploration says. The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber fell to the seafloor trapped inside the USS ...