A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic ...

In 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying the Liliʻuokalani Ridge in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National ...

The speed at which new ocean floor is created varies from one location on the ocean ridge to another ... At the East Pacific rise, which is pushing a plate into the west coast of South America ...

Juan de Fuca Ridge 1. Located at the off coast of the Pacific Northwest region of North America. 2. It is a mid-ocean spreading centre and divergent plate boundary. 3. It separates the Pacific ...

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.