I n 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying ...

The speed at which new ocean floor is created varies from one location on the ocean ridge to another ... At the East Pacific rise, which is pushing a plate into the west coast of South America ...

This expedition was the first use of closely spaced echo sounders to map deep sea topography and the first to reveal the extent of the sea floor's ... called the Mid-Ocean Ridge.

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, however, some important ...