Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

UD doctoral student Melinda Bahruth studies rocks aboard a research vessel as part of a research cruise to the Gofar Transform Fault that runs underwater on the East Pacific Rise. Ocean geology ...

Researchers have dated back the oldest rocks of the Pacific Ocean 200 million years, according to the National Ocean Service. More than 30% of the Earth's surface is made up by the Pacific Ocean.

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

Pacific Ocean ‘EV Battery Rocks' on Ocean Floor Could Power a Billion Electric Vehicles The Metals Company is currently researching ways to ‘mine’ them with the lightest impact ...

Strange rock formations beneath the Pacific Ocean could change our understanding of early Earth. Our world may seem fragile, but Earth has been around for a very long time.

Porous rock that formed during one of Earth's biggest volcanic eruptions absorbed so much water as it eroded that it created a huge reservoir over the eons, ... below the Pacific Ocean seabed.

Like many other rock formations on the Pacific coast, Haystack Rock is slowly eroding, and may be gone in the next 2,000 to 3,000 years. That's all the more reason to appreciate it while it's here.

There’s a very special type of rock at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that could be the key to millions of future electric vehicles. Researchers on the Maersk Launcher, ...

There’s a very special type of rock at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that could be the key to millions of future electric vehicles. Researchers on the Maersk Launcher, which is currently ...