The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...

Scientists observed a mid-ocean ridge widen in real time, recording several metres of sea-floor motion and huge lava outflows ...

For most of human history, the creation of new ocean floor has been something inferred rather than witnessed. Geologists ...

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

Mountains may look timeless, but they are constantly changing. Some continue to rise while others stop growing because ...

For the first time in history, scientists have captured a seafloor spreading event in real-time in the Indian Ocean. Discover how the ocean floor split open, released millions of cubic metres of lava, ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

Bathymetry of the seafloor around the Southeast Indian Rift where two tectonic plates abruptly opened a portal to the ...

Scientists directly observed a massive underwater volcanic eruption that created new oceanic crust, offering rare insight ...

Scientists have witnessed the birth of new oceanic crust for the first time, capturing a rare seafloor spreading event that offers fresh insights into Earth's tectonic processes.

In a startling revelation, geologists from China have identified an active fault line beneath the Brahmaputra hydropower ...

For the first time, researchers observed seafloor creation as magma erupted and hardened during a rare tectonic event in the ...