Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

Tharp’s map provided some of the necessary missing evidence. If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Study Suggests the Atlantic Ocean Is Expanding by a Couple of Inches Every Year Due to a Massive Upwelling The Atlantic Ocean is expanding at a rate of about 1.5 inches annually due to a massive ...

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

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.

Between these continents lies the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a site which acts as a dividing line between the two plates. The area is vast - extending 10,000 miles from the Arctic Ocean to the southern ...

Experts from UNH explain how rare the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was and the likelihood of significant aftershocks.

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 ...

or even the Mid-Atlantic Ridge deep in the ocean. Some mountain ranges are formed when two sections of the Earth’s outer surface, called tectonic plates, push against each other and the pressure ...