Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...

Mid-ocean ridges are often presented as more or less two-dimensional features, with a great deal of continuity in the along-ridge direction and most variation happening perpendicular to the ridge.

Between about 12,000 to 6,000 years ago, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian plates, may have increased by as much as 40%. "As ice volume ...

According to the team’s calculations, the motion of the North American continental plate may have sped up by 25% as the ice melted. At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which ...

Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / CDeepSea / University of Bergen / ROV Aegir6000 At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between ...

Ocean science students at the University of Liverpool experienced an online lecture with a difference – one that took them straight to the heart of cutting-edge research expedition in the middle of ...

Advert 700 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean was a hydrothermal field ... It was located west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Science Alert reported that the area is said to be the ...

Most people think the bottom of the ocean ... Mid-Ocean Undersea Study), the first time scientists used deep-diving vehicles to explore the rugged volcanic terrain of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...