I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

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 ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

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

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

In addition, the diving plate melts and is often spewed out in volcanic eruptions such as those that formed ... the ocean floor and widens the giant basins. A single mid-ocean ridge system ...

The original crustal material is thought to have formed at a medium to fast spreading mid-oceanic ridge (Hanghoj et al. 2010) and was obducted onto the Arabian peninsula as the Tethys seaway closed ...