Preface / W. Roger Buck...[et al] -- Global systematics of mid-ocean ridge morphology / Christopher Small -- Linkages between faulting, volcanism, hydrothermal activity and segmentation on fast ...

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 ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

Some of the highest quality images ever taken of the Earth's lower crust reveal that the upper and lower crust form in two distinctly different ways. A team led by researchers from Columbia University ...

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research The earthquake distribution on ultraslow mid-ocean ridges differs fundamentally from other spreading zones. Water circulating ...

THE theory of ocean floor spreading requires that oceanic crust be generated at mid-ocean ridges. Evidence from a variety of sources suggests that the new crust is made largely of basalt and gabbro, ...

Understanding Earth's Crust Earth's crust ranges from 5 to 70 kilometers in thickness and serves as the planet's outermost ...

Oceanography, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON InterRidge (MARCH 2007), pp. 128-137 (10 pages) Baker, E.T., German, C.R., and H. Elderfield. 1995b. Hydrothermal ...

Oceanography, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON InterRidge (MARCH 2007), pp. 90-101 (12 pages) Aumento, F., and H. Loubat. 1970. The mid-Atlantic ridge near 45°N ...

Image: Tiny crystals called zircons are used to date oceanic crust. A newly developed method that detects tiny bits of zircon in rock reliably predicts the age of ocean crust more than 99 percent of ...

Less than a century ago, people expected the ocean floor to be as featureless as the surface of the water above. However, underwater explorations revealed quite the opposite: towering mid-oceanic ...