Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Geological evidence, for example, suggests that the island ... Enhanced spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge due to ice melting from Greenland may have contributed to that fiery past ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

With China dominating the supply chain, the US sees opportunity at the bottom of the ocean but the science is far from ...

For example, using altimeters on satellites or sonar technology ... Indirect mapping from sonar and other techniques allows ...