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 ...

700 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean was a hydrothermal field, often described as a geological area where hot ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

Scientists from the University of Southampton have found evidence of an extraordinary geological process more than 600 kilometers beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Their research reveals that hot ...

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 ...

A mountain range is a group of mountains found on land or under the sea, and they include the Andes in South America, the Himalayas in Asia, the Alps in Europe, or even the Mid-Atlantic Ridge deep ...

By comparison, the temperature of crustal fluids can reach 400 degrees C at hydrothermal vents in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where tectonic plates are diverging and new oceanic crust is being formed.

Between about 12,000 to 6,000 years ago, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian plates, may have increased by as much as 40%. "As ice volume ...