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 ...

Scientists have shown that temperature differences deep within Earth's mantle control the elevation and volcanic activity along mid-ocean ridges, the colossal mountain ranges that line the ocean ...

The earthquake distribution on ultraslow mid-ocean ridges differs fundamentally from other spreading zones. Water circulating at a depth of up to 15 kilometres leads to the formation of rock that ...

Nature - Modes of faulting at mid-ocean ridges. Skip to main content. ... Profiles orthogonal to these ridge segments, going through the centres of the images, are shown in Figs 3 and 5.

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), ... (IOCAS), along with collaborators, has shown that molybdenum (Mo) isotopes can provide new insights into the origin of ghost-arc signatures in MORBs. ...

Only two other underwater eruptions have been observed in real time before, and neither of those happened along an ocean ridge. But a staggering 80 percent of our planet’s volcanic and seismic ...

This was the first time scientists had witnessed a clearly active eruption along the mid-ocean ridge, a volcanic mountain chain that stretches about 40,000 miles around the globe, like the seams ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers sailed more than 1,000 miles out into the open ocean last month in search of proof that wildfires on land are not causing carbon buildup in the water. They ...

Ken Sims, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, recently received a $325,841 National Science Foundation grant to look at understanding the processes and timescales of basalt ...

Spanning the north-south length of the Atlantic Ocean for around 10,000 miles, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the longest mountain range in the world yet it remains largely unexplored.

Hot mantle drives elevation, volcanism along mid-ocean ridges Date: April 3, 2014 Source: Brown University Summary: Using data from seismic waves, scientists have shown that temperature deep in ...