A recent push by the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been ...

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

The structure of the ocean floor is extremely vast and irregular. In 1948, when Marie Tharp started working at the Lamont ...

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 ...

Each seamount is a biodiversity hotspot. In addition, the rugged seafloor influences the behaviour of ocean currents and the vertical mixing of water. This is information required to improve the ...

A23a, the world's largest iceberg, freed itself from a swirling ocean trap. It spans over 1,418 square miles, larger than ...

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 ...

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." ...

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.