Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age ...
The idea that the Atlantic basin is physically deepening as the Strait of Gibraltar slowly collapses into it sounds like science fiction, yet it reflects a real set of tectonic and oceanographic ...
Ninety-one years ago this week a powerful storm that left much of Ocean City in shambles and proved deadly elsewhere in the mid-Atlantic had a silver lining for the fishing and resort town by creating ...
Before the eruption, scientists saw a wide variety of ocean life around the Tica hydrothermal vent. Andrew Wozniak For the first time, scientists have witnessed an active seafloor volcanic eruption ...
The official 2024 Hurricane Forecast released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls for a busy year for the East Coast, including Ocean City and the mid-Atlantic area. In what ...