Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

Study Suggests the Atlantic Ocean Is Expanding by a Couple of Inches Every Year Due to a Massive Upwelling The Atlantic Ocean ...

Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...

New study questions whether the continents, North America and Europe, ever completely split apart tens of millions of years ...

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.

Experts from UNH explain how rare the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was and the likelihood of significant aftershocks.

Between these continents lies the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a site which acts as a dividing line between the two plates. The area is vast - extending 10,000 miles from the Arctic Ocean to the southern ...

The 2.0 earthquake Wednesday morning was in the same region of Maine as the magnitude 3.8 earthquake on Monday.

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 ...

Sunday afternoon, the storm was churning over the mid-Mississippi Valley on a track to the Mid-Atlantic region Monday ... they extend as far north as Ocean County, where a winter weather advisory ...

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 ...