If the entire East Antarctic Ice Sheet—including Denman Glacier, pictured here—melted today, sea level would rise by about 36 meters. Between 15 million and 6 million years ago, deepening of ...

If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, it could explain how the ... the U.S. government didn’t ...

They suggested that as new sea-floor crust was formed around the rift in the midocean ridge, it magnetized differently ... It confirmed sea-floor spreading as hypothesized by Hess, and thus ...

Scientists have now identified a strange slice of Earth deep below the Pacific that may explain why this region is currently creating the world's fastest spreading ocean ridge – the East Pacific ...

This reduction, mostly resulting from a global slowdown in seafloor spreading, caused ocean basins to deepen. In addition, the researchers calculated that heat flowing into the ocean from the hot ...

The Atlantis Massif is an oceanic core complex, a portion of lower crustal gabbroic rocks and peridotite mantle rocks uplifted during faulting of the seafloor (e.g. Ildefonse ... are most often ...