In an extraordinary discovery made in 2022, a deep-sea expedition led by the Ocean Exploration Trust aboard the E/V Nautilus ...

Tharp’s maps, and the evidence they provided, became a cornerstone of the modern understanding of geology. Her work proved ...

As the magma cooled it forced the existing sea-floor away from the Rift on either side. This theory accounted for and united several separate puzzles in marine geology: the youth of the ocean ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to jump-start mining on the ocean floor. Large-scale deep sea ...

canyons and complex ocean floor geology under the mud,” says Arai. The origins of his project date back to 2011, when a research team from the University of Tokyo reported abundant rare-earth ...

As well as the basalt that is erupted into the valley and injected into the rocks below to create new ocean floor, sedimentary rocks will also be deposited within the rift valley. At first the rift ...

President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence.

That timeline fit perfectly with a mysterious mountain-building phase seen in the geology of that region ... that unfolded long before the ocean floor around it even existed.