Between 15 million and 6 million years ago, a drop in ocean crust production may have lowered sea level by 26 to 32 meters.

Today we are witnessing rapid global sea level rise attributable mostly to climate change–driven melting of ice sheets and ...

It confirmed sea-floor spreading as hypothesized by Hess, and thus "continental drift," originally proposed by Alfred Wegener back in 1912. It convinced many that plate tectonics was the best ...

Sea life on the seafloor of New Zealand's most productive and important commercial fishing ground shows resilience to ...

East Auckland’s boaties are being asked to do their bit to help stop the spread of a harmful and invasive marine pest. Exotic caulerpa is the name for two fast-spreading seaweeds that have the ...

In the new work, the researchers considered various possible initial conditions for the area and ages of ocean crust, as well as crust destruction rates, calculating that the ancient seafloor ...