Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

The advent of sonar allowed for the first in-depth surveys ... The discovery of both trenches and mid-ocean ridges paved the way for geologists to accept plate tectonics by providing an ...

Along with carbon dioxide, these volcanoes and the 40,000-miles of mid-ocean mountain ridges pump enormous amounts of heat into the ocean; we don’t have a good handle on that quantity either.

By using a range of techniques like sonar, scientists have been able ... the ancient supercontinent. Called the mid-ocean ridges, these are enormous “wounds” or “scars” that run, very ...

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

“One of the coolest things we found was the diversity,” Whitney says. “We’ve got deep-sea fish, mid-ocean fish, and reef fish, all interacting at the surface for the first few weeks of ...