The Axial Seamount, located 300 miles off Oregon's coast, shows signs of eruption. Experts assure it won't affect land or ...

An underwater volcano off the Pacific Coast could erupt by the end of the year, according to scientists. The volcano, known ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the Barents Sea. As he peered at a sonar screen, he saw something strange—a ...

Normal faults are typically found at divergent plate boundaries, such as mid-ocean ridges or continental rift zones. Reverse faults, in contrast, form in regions where the crust is being compressed.

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 ...

So the team focused on mid-ocean ridges in this work. In their active form, thermophiles located around the mid-ocean ridge play an important role in the biogeochemical cycle in the ocean.

Volcanic Islands: Formed by underwater volcanoes that release magma, which cools and solidifies to emerge from the water. Three types: island arcs in subduction zones, mid-ocean ridges, and intraplate ...

Running beneath the ocean’s surface, mid-ocean ridges are formed at divergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates stretch apart and magma rises to create new crust on the ocean’s floor.

Mid-ocean ridges aren’t something scientists and the general public know a lot about. Little research or even mapping of this area under the ocean was not completed until around the 2010s. There’s a ...

Running beneath the ocean's surface, mid-ocean ridges are formed at divergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates ... A new study led by Dr. Jian Lin (Southern University of Science and ...