The rock core, retrieved from a staggering depth of 1,268 meters (4,160 feet) below the seabed, was collected from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a tectonic boundary where the Eurasian Plate meets the No ...

These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ... more than 3,200 km from the nearest plate boundary. This is explained by the 'hotspot' theory.

The team analyzed Mo isotopes in fresh basalts from the South Atlantic mid-ocean ridge (15–24°S ... By integrating seismic tomography and plate reconstructions, the researchers linked these ...