At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

We've all heard of the sunken city of Atlantis, but are you aware of the 'Lost City'? This particular underwater landscape is ...

By comparison, the temperature of crustal fluids can reach 400 degrees C at hydrothermal vents in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where tectonic plates are diverging and new oceanic crust is being formed.

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

Tharp’s map provided some of the necessary missing evidence. If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...

These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge that extends along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean southern Europe There are ...