The mid ocean ridge systems are the largest geological features on the planet. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a mostly underwater mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean that runs from 87°N -about 333km ...

The towering spires of carbonate rock found in the field were formed by a geological reaction known as serpentinization, ...

So at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the seafloor is raised up higher than the surrounding abyssal plains. This means that the amount of pelagic biomass in the overlying water column is lower (fish, plankton ...

Beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, some 700 meters down, what appears to be a lost city has been found. Although it ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 22:16:15 GMT yesterday, the U.S. Geological ...

The CAMP eruption eventually became the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. New seafloor forms at this ridge and slowly spreads outward. Today, the Atlantic Ocean is still widening by a few centimeters every year.

An upsurge of material deep below the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a seafloor rift seen in the middle of this false-color map, may be actively widening the Atlantic Ocean by a few centimeters every year.

While researchers explored the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on July 23, they noticed sets of holes in the sediment that they couldn’t explain. The laser points in the image are 10 centimeters. or about 4 ...