Marie Tharp’s maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor did more than just reveal an underwater mountain range—they transformed the ...

Perched atop the submerged mountain Atlantis along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the Lost City Hydrothermal Field features a jagged ...

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...

or even the Mid-Atlantic Ridge deep in the ocean. Some mountain ranges are formed when two sections of the Earth’s outer surface, called tectonic plates, push against each other and the pressure ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

It's an underwater chain of mountains 47,000 miles long. The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland), around Africa, through the Indian Ocean, between Australia and ...