IN a preliminary report1 of a recent study of the morphology of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge about 22° N. latitude, attention was directed to the dredging of a suite of greenstones from the western ...

The mid-ocean ridge traverses the globe. USGS Tharp was then able to use other seismic data to extend the ridge into the Indian Ocean and the East African Rift Valley.

The discovery was made as part of the Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition, which is exploring and mapping the “poorly understood deepwater areas of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, Mid-Atlantic ...

The Ohio Valley, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic will be particularly hard hit. Heat indexes over 100 will stretch from the Gulf Coast to Canada.

The CAMP eruption eventually became the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. New seafloor forms at this ridge and slowly spreads outward. Today, the Atlantic Ocean is still widening by a few centimeters every year.

California’s Death Valley could reach a scorching 130 degrees next week and come close to breaking its blistering world record as parts of the West, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic are under an ...

The three new hydrothermal vent fields were found as scientists were mapping an area approximately 65 square miles along the volatile Mid-Atlantic Ridge, according to the Schmidt Ocean Institute.