Recent research has shed light on a fascinating connection between ancient continental breakups and current volcanic activity ...

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 ...

Sometimes in science, even a successful prediction isn’t enough. Earlier this year, we covered some research suggesting that ice age fluctuations in sea level influenced the volcanism at mid-ocean ...

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 ...

ABSTRACTThe "Ridge" community has pioneered not only scientific exploration of and research on the global mid-ocean ridge system but also innovative and attractive ways of reaching out to the public ...

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 ...

The Setogawa subduction complex represents the subduction of an active mid-ocean ridge (the Kula-Pacific Ridge) under the Japan Arc about 20 m.y. ago in the early Miocene. The basalt is youngest in ...

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 ...

It’s often helpful to view the Earth as a complex device composed of many interacting sub-systems. Sometimes when you’ve drilled down a few levels, you’ll be surprised to find one component is ...

The earthquake distribution on ultra-slow mid-ocean ridges differs fundamentally from other spreading zones. Water circulating at a depth of up to 15 kilometers leads to the formation of rock that ...