It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge. In 1953, American physicists ... The large plate containing most of the Pacific Rim accounts for 80 percent of the earthquake energy of the planet.

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest ... renews the ocean floor and widens the giant basins. A single mid-ocean ridge system connects ...

The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge that extends along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean southern Europe There are ...

Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic crust. The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines along which the Earth is ...