Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

Though perhaps not well known to the general public, Axial Seamount is considered a key window into Earth's geology. Axial is ...

The underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is heading to eruption for the first time in a ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor ...

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 ...

New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown a strong correlation between sediment changes and a marked period of ...

At the same time, 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 was greatly reduced, it ...