In this web focus we highlight the prevalence and diversity of seabed carbon sources. The sea floor is emerging as a source of carbon to the overlying ocean. Scientific exploration of the sea bed ...

Life at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is slow, dark and quiet. Strange creatures glitter and glow. Oxygen seeps mysteriously from lumpy, metallic rocks. There is little to disturb these deep ...

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 ...

Photo: Harry Hess argues that the continents had once been one, and have drifted apart. With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the ...

In other words, resuspension can turn the seafloor temporarily from a carbon sink into a carbon source. "Kiel Bight, like other parts of the Baltic Sea, acts as an important sink for atmospheric ...