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 ...

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. ...

RPI researchers were the first to ever collect data during an underwater eruption on the Mid Ocean Ridge System. They happened to be on site to gather data from hydrothermal vents.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The mid-ocean ridge is the longest mountain range in the world and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge portion of the range spans the north-south length of the Atlantic Ocean. It also stretches a staggering ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice ...

“That’s still true, but we show that glacial forcing can also cause significant motion on relatively short timescales of 10,000 years.” Moving gears. The research, which was funded by the U.S.