The depths of the Atlantic Ocean are home to fascinating geological features and unusual life forms. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a massive underwater mountain range, 1,700 to 4,200 meters (1 to ...

The first discovered mid-ocean ridge was the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is a spreading center that bisects the North and South Atlantic basins; hence the origin of the name 'mid-ocean ridge'. Most ...

Tharp’s map provided some of the necessary missing evidence. If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...

The rocky, towering landscape is located west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge mountain range, hundreds of metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, and consists of massive walls, columns and ...

The continents of America and Europe are slowly becoming further apart as the Atlantic Ocean gets wider due to forces deep ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 19:02:04 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicenter, with a depth of ...

Marie Tharp, studying echo soundings, discovers that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge conceals a long rift ... and spreads laterally to form new ocean crust, a process he calls seafloor spreading.

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana.

"Because the Atlantic, like many ocean basins in the world ... be focusing on the ecosystems of 12 areas, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge off Iceland, the Sargasso Sea, the cold deep from ...

These findings have major implications for the temporal patterns of generation and migration of basaltic melt in the mantle, and of its delivery into the crust, beneath slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges ...

These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge that extends along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean southern Europe There are ...

or even the Mid-Atlantic Ridge deep in the ocean. Some mountain ranges are formed when two sections of the Earth’s outer surface, called tectonic plates, push against each other and the pressure ...