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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, it could explain how the ... the U.S. government didn’t ...
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The Atlantic Ocean is getting wider every year. Researchers have finally figured out why.
The set of mostly undersea peaks, known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR), separates ... on either side of the divide apart. The Atlantic seafloor is spreading A 1,800-mile-thick, mainly solid ...
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‘They look almost human made:’ NOAA finds weird lines of holes in mid-Atlantic floor
The Mid-Atlantic ... tectonic spreading, the MAR is the site of frequent earthquakes,” NOAA reports. “Hydrothermal vents may form where magma provides heat as it rises to the seafloor.
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Melting glaciers at the end of the Ice Age may have sped up continental drift, fueled volcanic eruptions
Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line ... long time—that processes like seafloor spreading and continental drift operate at timescales of millions of years driven by Earth ...
PBS1y
When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent
It’s called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and it’s part of the longest ... Today, the Atlantic is in its seafloor spreading stage, the mid-life of an ocean. But we might be just starting to ...
USA Today1y
Geoscientists drill down into the ocean for a record-breaking close-up of Earth's mantle
Pieces of Earth’s rocky mantle were collected by a drilling vessel called the JOIDES Resolution about a mile beneath the North Atlantic ... of ultra-slow seafloor spreading." ...
Miami Herald2y
‘They look almost human made.’ NOAA finds weird lines of holes in Mid-Atlantic floor
Photos show the holes interrupted what is otherwise a solid, flat sandy surface on the Atlantic seafloor ... the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and Azores Plateau.” ...
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Melting glaciers at the end of the Ice Age may have sped up continental drift, fueled volcanic eruptions
Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean ... ice melting could enhance seafloor spreading and ...
Seattle Times2y
‘They look almost human-made’: NOAA finds weird holes in mid-Atlantic floor
Advertising On Saturday’s #Okeanos dive, we saw several sublinear sets of holes in the seafloor ... of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and Azores Plateau.” ...