Sprawling fields of rocks about the size of your fist coat the Pacific seabed. Below miles of ocean, these nodules burst with copper, nickel, manganese and cobalt, all key to building batteries ...

Signe Baumane's animated feature "Rocks in My Pockets" looks and sounds like a kid's movie with whimsical drawings, papier-mâché backdrops and the kind of overly expressive narration usually ...

Placing seismometers Warren, who served as the chief scientist on the cruise, said the underlying question the research group wants to understand is how the rocks deform in earthquakes. “The next step ...

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins. As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet.

Previously, researchers have studied bacteria systems that were between 3.5 and 8 million years old. But 90% of the ocean floor is much older than that. Yohey Suzuki, an associate professor in the ...