those massive puzzle pieces of Earth’s crust that shift over millions of years. Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with ...

This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

NASA's SWOT satellite has revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents and tectonics.

As the magma cooled it forced the existing sea-floor away from the Rift on either side. This theory accounted for and united several separate puzzles in marine geology: the youth of the ocean ...