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Discoveries in the Deep
Marie Tharp, studying echo soundings, discovers that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge conceals a long rift valley, which turns out to be part of a hidden volcanic rent that girds the global deep.
The only place on Earth where you get to swim between continents
Silfra Fissure in Iceland, located in Þingvellir National Park, offers a unique opportunity to swim or snorkel between the ...
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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
This underwater mountain range is now called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and it was one ... more startling was the central valley ...
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Urgent: 6.6-magnitude quake hits central Mid-Atlantic Ridge
NEW YORK, March 28 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 jolted central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 2025-03-28 17:17:26 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter ...
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Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Sailing aboard his research vessel, the Calypso, he purposely crossed the mid-Atlantic Ridge and lowered an underwater movie ...