Researchers have uncovered a "lost city" in the Atlantic Ocean that could unlock the secrets of life's emergence on our planet. The Lost City Hydrothermal Field, an ancient system of mineral ...

Beneath the Atlantic's dark depths lies a real-life "Lost City", a mysterious underwater world of towering structures that ...

Further east, the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge also sped up. This ridge lies between the North American and Eurasian plates and runs through Iceland. Between 12,000 and 6,000 years ago, the spreading ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice ...

At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian plates, may have increased by as much as 40%. “As ice volume was greatly reduced, it ...

CHARLES H. LANGMUIR, DONALD W. FORSYTH, Mantle Melting Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges, Oceanography, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON InterRidge (MARCH 2007), pp. 78-89 ...

Meteorologist ... , — Tropical Storm Gordon continues in the eastern Atlantic. The storm is 1345mi WNW of the Cabo Verde Islands and is moving WSW at 10 mph with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.

Scientists in an expedition to the Mid-Atlantic ocean ridge lifted almost a mile of precious rocks from beneath an exotic feature linked to life’s possible beginning. By William J. Broad ...

When oceanic plates form at mid-ocean ridges, they are hot and buoyant, but as they move away from the ridge, they cool and become heavy. Gravity will do the job and eventually pull them down back ...

You can find carbonate spires in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. ©NOAA Photo Library: expl2229 / CC BY 2.0 – Original / License Mid-ocean ridges aren’t something scientists and the general public know a lot ...

In 1956, Heezen and Ewing, the head of the Lamont lab, published a paper noting a ridge covering about 40,000 miles of the ocean's floor, without crediting Tharp.