Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less ... But there was still around 293 million square kilometers of ocean floor to map, he added. The project is a collaboration between ...

If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ... There was another catch: because of the Cold War, the ...

Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, officials leading the project said, with almost a fifth covered so far.

geochronologists at the sea floor age map, and geographers at the topography map. 3. Ask each group to become familiar with their map and read the side label to see what is being displayed and how ...

Naturally there are very acidic parts of the ocean, mainly around underwater hydrothermal vents and cold seeps.' These openings occur on the sea floor and are caused by underground volcanic activity. ...

The ocean floor can be flat or it can have caves and mountains. The weather can be very extreme on the oceans. There can be very high winds and huge waves.

A volcanically active ridge, the extensive rise occurs where two tectonic plates meet on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Located along the ridge are hydrothermal vents, or openings in the seafloor ...

Hydrothermal vents are cracks in the ocean floor that release hot, mineral-rich water into the deep sea. They form when seawater seeps into Earth’s crust in areas where tectonic plates are eithe ...

A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered ... a photo gallery and interactive map of the division's finds.

Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area with volcanic activity. Giant tubeworms, which are known as the ...