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

“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor spreading, which occurs at the mid-ocean ridges that she was the ...

Abstract: A unifying model of oceanic crustal development at slow spreading rates ... controlled by along-axis variation in melt supply and coupled to along-axis variation in spreading rate and across ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the ... a fast-spreading ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet off the ...

A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where two of the immense plates comprising Earth’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bringing a novel approach to a classic problem, researchers have revealed how changes in ocean chemistry over the past 2 ...

Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area ... transported through bottom, ridge and ocean currents before ...

The East Pacific Rise is located where two such plates are gradually spreading ... New seafloor forms in places where magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid-ocean ridge and cools ...