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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

The rare site was about two million years old beneath thousands of feet under the Atlantic Ocean and may contain secrets of ...

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 ...

One is the Alpide earthquake belt, which starts in Indonesia and stretches west all the way through the Himalayas and ...