“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor ...

An expert diver's record-breaking feat was supplemented, not by the discovery of a magical marine creature, but by plastic ...

Starting with a historical summary of seafloor exploration and the developing technologies used to study this extreme environment, it then describes the distinctive geologic components of the Earth's ...

The ship is operated through the non-profit Ocean Exploration Trust, an organization devoted to seafloor exploration. An E/V Nautilus team famously spotted a “yellow brick road” deep ...

This supported the theory that Harry Hess had put forth, that the ocean progressivley widens as new sea floor is created along a crack that follows the crest of midocean ridges. In 1966 ...

One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marks its 20th anniversary on Dec. 26 ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the seafloor to date, according to a new study in Science. The work could ...

an ocean chemist from the University of Liverpool who was involved in the project pointed out: "We can still say we have better maps of the surface of the Moon and Mars than of the sea floor." ...

Offshore oil and gas exploration uses deafening seismic surveys that generate the loudest human sounds in the ocean, short of those made by explosives. Seismic testing involves blasting the seafloor ...

were there to conduct Artic Ocean seafloor mapping near Alaska and survey uncharted waters of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Then, they found a new volcano-like formation deep in the ocean waters.