A former NASA employee has released a fascinating animation which shows how the look of the planet would change if all the oceans—which cover three fifths of the surface—gradually drained away.

Along submarine mountain ranges, the mid-ocean ridges, forces from the Earth's interior push tectonic plates apart, forming new ocean floor and thus moving continents about. However, many features of ...

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 ...

Generally speaking, "ridge subduction" involves subduction of spreading oceanic ridges, aseismic ridges or oceanic plateaus and inactive arc ridges, and this common and important geological process ...

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 ...

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have identified a new type of ocean ridge that is spreading so slowly that Earth's mantle is exposed over large regions of the sea floor ...

Oceanography, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON InterRidge (MARCH 2007), pp. 78-89 (12 pages) Allegre, C., and D.L. Turcotte. 1986. Implications of a two component ...

Ocean scientists have discovered a number of mysterious holes in the seafloor that look human-made despite being located 2,540 meters (8,333 feet), or 1.6 mile underwater. The holes were discovered ...