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

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 ...

This supported the theory that Harry Hess had put forth, that the ocean progressivley widens ... It confirmed sea-floor spreading as hypothesized by Hess, and thus "continental drift," originally ...

A new study about Earth's northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety in vent styles than previously thought. The study has important implications for understanding the origin of ...

A new study about Earth's northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety in vent styles than previously ...

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 ...

A new study about Earth’s northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety in vent styles than previously ...

so altimeter data provide most of the seafloor topography shown in common map programs such as Google Earth. Yao Yu, a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, ...

The research team collected sediment cores from mangrove habitats to analyze the microplastic content. Ocean Seafloor Identified as the Ultimate Sink for Marine Plastics Ocean Seafloor Identified ...

Thomas said. "The Indian Ocean has a variety of complex and interesting deep-sea ecosystems across basins, trenches, seamounts and ridges." The review looked at major seafloor features ...