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 ...

To overcome this challenge, the researchers focused on Besshi-type VMS deposits that formed on sediment-covered mid-ocean ridges. The ages of these deposits can serve as precise markers for the ...

that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is involved actively in plate tectonics more than ever thought before. "This work refutes long-held assumptions that mid-ocean ridges might play a passive role in plate ...

About 400 kilometers northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...

Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano, one of the most active lava lakes on Earth, offers critical insights into active geological processes like those at mid-ocean ridges. New technology, including GPS devices ...

South Florida will indeed stay dry, with only an occasional cloud in the sky. Daytime highs on the coast should hover in the ...

Oceans present wide, open spaces that stretch to the abyssal plains, the trenches, and the mid-ocean ridges. Seas are comparatively shallower, with average depths ranging from several hundred to ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...

About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from what is now Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica. This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea ...