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 ...

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 ...

At mid-ocean ridges, molten lava pushes through breaks in the crust during amazing undersea volcanic eruptions. This molten rock quickly cools, and as it does, it contracts, forming long cracks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.