The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic underwater landscape shaped by tectonic activity and volcanic processes. Among ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

The process renews the ocean floor and widens the giant basins. A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ridge the longest mountain range in the world. On land ...

Juan de Fuca Ridge 1. Located at the off coast of the Pacific Northwest region of North America. 2. It is a mid-ocean spreading centre and divergent plate boundary. 3. It separates the Pacific ...

As it cools down, the lava creates a long line of mountains under the ocean called the Mid-ocean Ridge - the longest mountain range on Earth. The longest mountain range on land is the Andes in ...

On March 28, 2025, a significant seismic event unfolded in the ocean depths of the central Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Recorded as a magnitude 6.1 earthquake by the United States Geologic ...

A moderate underwater earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 was detected in the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on Tuesday morning.