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 ...

Scientists discover a radioactive spike of beryllium-10 (10Be) in Pacific Ocean sediments, revealing ancient climatic and ...

As you go deeper, rocks in the crust actually flow, like glaciers flow. This occurs at 4 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean floor, and 10 miles deep in the seafloor of the Atlantic Ocean, which is colder ...

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 ...

Microscopic cross-section of the new basalt type. EXP 351 Science. An international team of researchers unearthed the previously unknown form of basalt after drilling through the Pacific ocean floor.

Just recently, scientists examining rocks in Greenland uncovered evidence of a magma ocean that existed when Earth was just a baby, not long after the formation of the Moon. Daily Newsletter ...

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.

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.

Deep sea mining has now been approved to be trialed at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, in a controversial move.. The Metals Company, a deep sea mining company, has now been permitted to test its ...

However, the CEO and chairman of Vancouver-based the Metals Company said, the black lump is an electric vehicle battery in a rock and there could be trillions of them on the ocean floor about ...