They eventually merge in the vicinity of a margin-parallel, basement peridotite ridge to give rise to a continuous crust that records reversals in the Earth's magnetic field from the time of anomaly ...

Geologist Harry Hess and geophysicist Robert S. Dietz independently argue in 1961 and 1962 that the seafloor is pulling apart at mid-ocean ridges.

Such spooktacular stories may soon be put to rest. In 2019, the U.S. began a seafloor mapping initiative that included the Great Lakes. The project should be able to take note of sunken vessels or ...

1:00 BC man accidentally captures underwater humpback whale feeding Kieley and his wife were diving off Ogden Point in Victoria on Sunday and were scouring the seafloor for octopus dens when they ...

The team says that the earlier traces of human-caused contamination were found in coastal sediments. In fact, the earliest evidence came from a core from a peat bog. But the later traces were found in ...

Massive quantities of microplastics lie on the deep ocean floor 500 kilometers off the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, the highest level ever found on the seafloor anywhere, a group of ...

Maya Tolstoy, of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, will present a lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on Feb. 1, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and a ...

Severe drought conditions have helped fuel the Los Angeles wildfires. But a new study, released Thursday in the journal Science comes with a warning: Climate change is making catastrophic, multiye ...

The mineralization process below the surface of the seafloor in a hydrothermal field has an important influence on the distribution and enrichment of elements. The Duanqiao hydrothermal field (DHF) is ...