The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

The basement was formed about 60 million years ago at the mid-ocean ridge crest, and the uplift of the ridge and opening of Kings Trough occurred about 27 million years ago.

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully ...

If rifting continues, a new oceanic basin could form, complete with a mid-ocean ridge dividing the Nubian and Somali Plates. Early estimates suggested this process could take tens of millions of ...

At the turn of the millennium, researchers uncovered a site near the summit of an underwater mountain range in the mid-Atlantic Ridge that spews essential gases to sustain unique life forms. Located 2 ...

Africa is splitting apart and, in five to ten million years, will become two separate continents divided by a new, sixth ...

Two major midocean ridges are the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ... and under the ocean worldwide. Cinder cones are simple volcanoes that form where vents, or openings, spit out ash and lava.

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at a mid-ocean ridge where vast amounts of magma rush to the surface and form new oceanic crust. As this magma migrates towards Earth's surface, it cools down and new minerals begin to form.