Sea-Floor Spreading Geophysical phenomena ranging from earthquakes to continental drift are being explained by a new theory that gives promise of eventually relating geomagnetism and the earth's ...

It confirmed sea-floor spreading as hypothesized by Hess, and thus "continental drift," originally proposed by Alfred Wegener back in 1912. It convinced many that plate tectonics was the best ...

Photo: Harry Hess argues that the continents had once been one, and have drifted apart. With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the ...

In this web focus we highlight the prevalence and diversity of seabed carbon sources. The sea floor is emerging as a source of carbon to the overlying ocean. Scientific exploration of the sea bed ...

To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. A mile and a half beneath the ocean’s surface, the seafloor seems nearly as alien as the surfaces of other planets. Deep-sea volcanic ridges ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East ... the East Pacific Rise, a fast-spreading ocean ridge where several ...

German scientists have inspected an area of seafloor newly exposed by the calving of mega-iceberg A74 and found it to be teeming with animals. Video cameras tracked abundant filter-feeders ...

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 ...

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean, where it has seemingly hovered in a sort of mid-dive for ...

Scientists have now identified a strange slice of Earth deep below the Pacific that may explain why this region is currently ...

That last part Barron mentioned may be an oversimplification, but he says TMC has partnered with a company that’s been laying pipe on the seafloor for 38 years, Allseas. They’ve already ...