The basement was formed about 60 million years ago at the mid-ocean ridge crest, and the uplift of the ridge and opening of Kings Trough occurred about 27 million years ago.

The discovery that it is growing outward from the mid-ocean ridges has suggested that it is formed In huge plates that act as units in the dynamic processes of the earth's crust By H. W. Menard ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

At its peak on March 6, the ridge delivered roughly 2,000 tremors in a day and as many as 200 sub-4.1 earthquakes within a ...

In 1963, Fred Vine, Drummond Matthews, and others found that the crust surrounding the midocean ridges showed alternating ... Hess had put forth, that the ocean progressivley widens as new sea ...

and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic crust. The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines along which the Earth is turning itself inside out through the process of plate tectonics.

Ariel’s medial grooves could provide important clues about the moon’s internal structure, particularly regarding the presence ...