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 ...

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. Today, it's home to a tiny and extremely isolated farming community.

"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 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 ...