The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular - perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to ...

That ridge, it was later discovered, extended through the major oceans of the world. It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge ... called the Great Global Rift, came very close to land.

The rift along the axis of the mid-ocean ridge system is among the most seismically active locations on Earth. Through the use of multibeam bathymetry, a type of detailed sonar mapping that ...

Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley ... ocean floor. The speed at which new ocean floor is created varies from one location on the ocean ridge ...

A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ridge the longest mountain range in the world. On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where ...

In the vast, serene deserts of Ethiopia, something remarkable has been happening since 2005—a 35-mile-long crack, known as ...

A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics. It typically has a depth of ~ 2,600 meters (8,500 ft) and rises about two kilometers above the deepest portion of an ...

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

The world's mid-ocean ridges form a single, connected global ridge system that is part of every ocean, and is the longest mountain range in the world. Geologically active, mid-ocean ridges are key ...

Where continents rift apart, new crust is formed from upwelling ... in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic crust. The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines ...

Viegas, 2019, Dynamic accretion beneath a slow spreading ridge segment: IODP Hole 1473A and the Atlantis Bank Oceanic Core Complex ... is lost at the axis and within the rift valley, and pure ...

In tens of millions of years, hundreds of miles of this rift could be covered in water, this ocean has already been named the Afar. Importance: Witnessing the birth of a new ocean. Dive category ...