Beneath the Arctic’s frozen darkness, scientists have encountered rare black smokers in a place where they were never ...

It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible ...

An underwater volcano located about 300 miles off Oregon’s coast is showing alarming signs that it’s about to erupt. Axial Seamount, which sits nearly a mile below the ocean’s surface, last blew its ...

Axial is significant because it sits atop the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the region where the enormous Pacific and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates pull apart, forming the ocean crust. "Over two-thirds of ...

Hydrothermal vents are hot springs generated by underwater volcanoes ... typically confined to smaller regions of active venting along mid-ocean ridges. The relatively low temperatures of the vents, ...

“Over two-thirds of the Earth’s surface was formed by volcanic eruptions at these mid-ocean ridges,” said Maya Tolstoy ... By comparison, life on the hydrothermal vents will have a different ...

Mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems significantly impact marine chemistry ... in the hydrothermal influenced water and sediment samples near Longqi and Tiancheng vents in the southwestern Indian ...

“Over two-thirds of the Earth’s surface was formed by volcanic eruptions at these mid-ocean ridges,” Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist and dean of the University of Washington’s College ...

As it cools down, the lava creates a long line of mountains under the ocean called the Mid-ocean Ridge - the longest mountain range on Earth. The longest mountain range on land is the Andes in ...

Melting ice sped up movements between the continental plates and significantly increased the size of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge. "As ice volume was greatly reduced, it caused a huge motion in ...