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Earthquake scientists studying a fault off Oregon’s coast have figured out a new way to map the layers of sediment and rock under the ocean floor. They did it using whale song inadvertently ...
Newport's Ocean to Bay Trail is a roughly five-mile journey from Agate Beach State Recreation Site to Yaquina Bay. Opened in the early 2000s, the trail saw rejuvenation efforts about a year-and-a ...
Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don’t have very good maps. Researchers announced Friday that they’ve completed a map for just over ...
Hot, mineral-laden seawater is gushing out of the ocean floor about 50 miles off the coast of Newport. It’s at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, in a site known as a seep.
In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to date. The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT ...
Scientists attach video cameras to sea lions to map the ocean floor. August 9, 2024 3:00 AM ET. By . Regina G. Barber , Berly McCoy , Ailsa Chang , Hannah Chinn , Kai McNamee ...
A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.