The scientists travelled to the widest part of the Atlantic to collect data from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is located between South America and Africa. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the longest ...

Notice how Africa and South America would fit perfectly together, this is because they were once one landmass, eventually sutured apart by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

The research began in 2016, when a group of researchers set sail on a research vessel to the widest part of the Atlantic Ocean between South America and Africa; in other words, to "the middle of ...

This magma hardened into volcanic rock, now found across South America, Africa, and the Atlantic seafloor. In Namibia and Angola, remnants of these eruptions can still be observed in layers nearly ...

The plates attached to the Americas are moving apart from those attached to Europe and Africa by four centimetres per year. In between these continents lies the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a site where ...

Rock rising from more than 600 kilometers deep at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge may play a more active role ... seismometers on the seafloor near a spot along the ridge between South America and Africa.

An 'upsurge of matter' from deep beneath the Earth's crust is pushing Britain and America an inch and a half (4cm) apart every year, a new University of Southampton study reveals.

At the slow-spreading mid-Atlantic ridge in the South Atlantic Ocean an iron cloud spreads for more than 1,000 kilometers across the Atlantic from west of Namibia, Africa, to northeast of Rio de ...

Dr Skomal explained: "Although Lydia is closer to Europe than North America, she technically does not cross the Atlantic until she crosses the mid-Atlantic ridge, which she has yet to do.