Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / CDeepSea / University of Bergen / ROV Aegir6000 At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian ... say Norway would be wise to look to its own past.

There’s a huge volcano in northwest US territory, and all signs say it’s about to blow. The result is set to be a massive ...

This geographical phenomenon, known as the Eastern African Rift (EARS), is believed to have initiated around 22 million years ...

Most people think the bottom of the ocean is like ... Mid-Ocean Undersea Study), the first time scientists used deep-diving vehicles to explore the rugged volcanic terrain of the Mid-Atlantic ...

To answer that, you have to look deep under Earth’s surface ... ancient zircon populations in unexpected places—like mid-ocean ridges and remote hotspot islands including Hawai’i and ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

This was the first time scientists had witnessed a clearly active eruption along the mid-ocean ridge, a volcanic mountain chain that stretches about 40,000 miles around the globe, like the seams of a ...

Between about 12,000 to 6,000 years ago, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between ... long time -- that processes like seafloor spreading and continental drift operate at ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line ... long time—that processes like seafloor spreading and continental drift operate at timescales of millions of years driven by Earth ...

At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and ... “That story that we’ve been telling for a long, long time—that processes like seafloor ...