A program designed to study the mid-ocean ridge system and enhance understanding of the relationship between the geological processes that lead to planetary renewal in the deep ocean and life forms ...

Before the eruption, scientists saw a wide variety of ocean life around the Tica hydrothermal vent. Andrew Wozniak For the first time, scientists have witnessed an active seafloor volcanic eruption ...

Ken Sims, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, recently received a $325,841 National Science Foundation grant to look at understanding the processes and timescales of basalt ...

Preface / W. Roger Buck...[et al] -- Global systematics of mid-ocean ridge morphology / Christopher Small -- Linkages between faulting, volcanism, hydrothermal activity and segmentation on fast ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides scientists with a powerful new tool for monitoring and predicting tectonic activity deep beneath the seafloor at ...

Off the southern coast of Chile, three tectonic plates meet at a point known as the Chile Triple Junction. Two are oceanic plates, the Nazca and the Antarctic, which are separating in an active ...

New study argues “no,” signaling the start of a scientific debate. I can't see that having much effect at all considering the forces that are driving the plate separation. The changes in sea level ...

The human-occupied vehicle Alvin, during a dive on the East Pacific Rise, collected samples and recovered instruments placed at the vents during previous expeditions. Woods Hole, Mass (October 13, ...