A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Geologists want to know why the seafloor is getting sluggish. A new global ...

Seafloor spreading has all kinds of effects. It can cause sea level rise, pushes tectonic plates around and can affect the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by powering volcanoes.

Geoscientists Professor Anne Bernhardt of Freie Universität Berlin and PD Dr. Wolfgang Schwanghart of the University of ...

Researchers today published the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced. Data collected by satellites and remote sensing instruments were used to created a model at least twice as ...

This reduction, mostly resulting from a global slowdown in seafloor spreading, caused ocean basins to deepen. In the new work, published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, the researchers ...

Students in Mrs. D’s 6th class in Arkansas sent a thank you note and pictures from their seafloor spreading kit funded from YOU who donated to our Oceans in the Classroom DonorsChoose challenge! Way ...

Sea level changes Changes in sea level caused by major glacial cycles affects the thickness of the sea floor spreading out from mid-ocean ridges, according to a new study. The findings reported in ...

as it is comprised of mantle rocks that have been brought up closer to the surface through the process of ultra-slow seafloor spreading." The research team, part of the International Ocean ...

Ancient seafloor spreading 15 million years ago caused sea levels to plummet In the new study, which was published Oct. 5 in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, the same researchers used the ...