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 ...

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 ...

The present solid Earth is actually active, with new plates generating in the mid-ocean ridges and some old plates sinking back into the interior through subduction zones. Subduction is thus a key ...

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 ...

Oceanography, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON InterRidge (MARCH 2007), pp. 128-137 (10 pages) Baker, E.T., German, C.R., and H. Elderfield. 1995b. Hydrothermal ...

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 ...

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Waves in Earth's mantle created by the rifting of continents may peel the planet's crust from below, feeding volcanoes in the middle of the ocean.

A new analysis of rocks thought to be at least 2.5 billion years old by researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History helps clarify the chemical history of Earth's mantle—the ...