Geologist Marie Tharp turned years of data into easily digestible maps. She also discovered the Mid-Atlantic rift, which contributed evidence to the plate tectonics theory. Why do Earth's ...

complete with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its central rift. There was another catch: because of the Cold War, the U.S.

In it, Belanger, an accomplished photographer of human interactions with the environment, presents photographs of Iceland’s Mid-Atlantic rift and California’s San Andreas Fault. In this ...

West Iceland's volcano is a rift activity volcano, which involves the earth being pulled apart in two different directions through the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, rather than a cone erupting magma through ...