If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, it could explain how the ... the U.S. government didn’t ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of ...

Hess, H. H., Petrologic Studies: A Volume in Honor of A. F. Buddington, 599 (Geological Soc. of America, New York, 1962); Submarine Geology and Geophysics, 317 ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

The Atlantis Massif is an oceanic core complex, a portion of lower crustal gabbroic rocks and peridotite mantle rocks uplifted during faulting of the seafloor ... often associated with slow spreading ...

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 ...