A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides scientists with a powerful new tool for ...

A program designed to study the mid-ocean ridge system and enhance understanding of the relationship between the geological processes that lead to planetary renewal in the deep ocean and life forms ...

The present solid Earth is actually active, with new plates generating in the mid-ocean ridges and some old plates sinking back into the interior through subduction zones. Subduction is thus a key ...

Ken Sims, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, recently received a $325,841 National Science Foundation grant to look at understanding the processes and timescales of basalt ...

India now commands the largest area allocated in the international seabed for Polymetallic Sulphides exploration.

San Juan, Puerto Rico – Scientists have discovered three new hydrothermal vent fields over a 434-mile-long stretch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the first scientific expedition aboard Schmidt Ocean ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides scientists with a powerful new ...