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 ...

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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo provided by Schmidt Ocean Institute, experiments code-named “Mesh Box Staining Gadgets ...

Known as hydrothermal vents, these underwater volcanic ridges have long been known to attract all manner of microscopic marine life to the otherwise largely uninhabited seafloor. Until this ...

Using a vibrating coring device mounted on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ROV SuBastian, the scientists gathered seafloor sediment cores from the Northern Patagonia Sea offshore to the Peru-Chile ...

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 ...

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 uncovered communities of animals such as tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath the seafloor, revealing a previously unknown but thriving ecosystem. Researchers ...

NEW YORK — Scientists for the first time have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor. An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America ...

But this volcanically active area of the seafloor is speckled with holes, through which heat and minerals seep, providing a chemosynthetic basis on which marine food webs proliferate. A crustal ...

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