As the continental shelf gives way to the ocean depths, trenches and canyons gouge into the Earth's crust. Submarine canyons, underwater erosion, and drainage systems analogous to above-water ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans.

The search of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 didn't uncover the missing airliner, but revealed previously undiscovered volcanoes, mountain ridges and deep trenches studded with shipwrecks and anchors.

Science on a Mission Naomi Oreskes Univ. of Chicago, $40. In 2004, Japanese scientists captured the first underwater images of a live giant squid, a near-mythical, deep-ocean creature whose only ...

A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics. This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the ...

The Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth, plunges nearly 11,000 meters at its lowest point on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Life persists in the deep and cold darkness, and "wherever there ...

Oceans present wide, open spaces that stretch to the abyssal plains, the trenches, and the mid-ocean ridges. Seas are comparatively shallower, with average depths ranging from several hundred to ...

This deeper portion of the Bering Sea is divided by ridges into three basins; the Aleutian Basin, the Bowers Basin, and the Komandor Basin. Quoting World Atlas, the deepest point of the Bering Sea is ...

The discovery of both trenches and mid-ocean ridges paved the way for geologists to accept plate tectonics by providing an explanation for how the Earth's crust is both created through seafloor ...