Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...

Oceanographers explored an area around the Pacific Ocean’s Nazca Ridge and found a massive underwater mountain. Using a sonar ...

A quirky science story emerged from the ocean depths in 2022 and it’s now ... the Papahānaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii. The formation’s resemblance ...

The newly discovered vents are located on the East Pacific Rise (EPR) near 10°N latitude, a part of the globe-spanning mid-ocean ridge volcanic mountain chain, where two tectonic plates are ...

Marie Tharp, studying echo soundings, discovers that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge conceals a long rift ... and spreads laterally to form new ocean crust, a process he calls seafloor spreading.