Dr. Shiki Machida from the Chiba Institute of Technology revealed that the scale of material heterogeneity in the upper ...

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 ...

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 ...

A deep-sea exploration off the coast of Hawaii has revealed a striking natural formation on the Pacific seafloor that’s left ...

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 ...

Kunlun differs in critical ways from other known hydrothermal systems. Instead of being driven by volcanic heat and located along mid-ocean ridges, Kunlun’s hydrogen-rich plumes are generated by ...

The third phase of the European research project MiningImpact has officially begun. Researchers from nine countries are ...

A human-occupied vehicle (HOV) probing the deep Pacific Ocean has cast a light upon a massive undersea 'metropolis'.

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A joint research group has identified that the spatial scale of "heterogeneity" in the upper mantle, caused by a large-scale ...