A new map of the seafloor of the Southern Ocean ... Earth’s climate and geological history. Features of the ocean floor help determine how water masses and ocean currents move and how the ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

But for two earthquake researchers, they found whale vocalization reflections could assist in measuring ocean crust structure. Their findings appear today (February 12) in Science. “It’s a nice ...

It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is ...

Photo: Harry Hess argues that the continents had once been one, and have drifted apart. With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the ...

The fact that Florida has “lost roughly half its land since the last ice age” owing to rising sea levels is just one of the many — and disturbing — revelations provided by “The Deepest Map.” She also ...