This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

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

Due to a much faster melt migration in the brittle part of the lithosphere, the melt migration is simulated by instantaneous melt extraction from an assigned melt extraction region beneath the ridge ...

Abstract: Pressures at which partial crystallization occurs for mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) have been examined by a new petrological method that is based on a parameterization of experimental data ...

A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ridge the longest mountain range in the world. On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where ...

2014). Mid-ocean ridges represent the longest and most significant chain of volcanoes on our planet, yet due to their remoteness remain relatively poorly studied. Establishing the details of the ...