Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

인류 역사상 처음으로 바다 밑바닥에서 용암이 분출되고 지각이 확장되는 현상을 실시간으로 관측했다. 이론으로만 존재하던 해저 확장설을 실제로 포착했다는 의미가 있다. 장이브 루아예 프랑스 국립과학연구센터(CNRS) ...

This spring, the Center for Strategic and International Studies published an analysis asking a question that would have ...

Jon Thoreau Scott was a free and original thinker. As a longtime professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

The ocean floor slowly stretches apart by allowing molten rock to rise up and form new crust. However, because this happens ...

Earlier study of the region had shown that the spreading in the area occurs at an average rate of a bit over 60 millimeters a ...

Scientists observed a mid-ocean ridge widen in real time, recording several metres of sea-floor motion and huge lava outflows ...

Geoscientists at the University of Glasgow have helped reveal new evidence about the formation of one of the highest ...

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