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

Oceanography, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON InterRidge (MARCH 2007), pp. 102-115 (14 pages) Baker, E.T., and S.R. Hammond. 1992. Hydrothermal venting and the apparent magmatic budget of the Juan de ...

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 ...

Some of the highest quality images ever taken of the Earth's lower crust reveal that the upper and lower crust form in two distinctly different ways. A team led by researchers from Columbia University ...

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 ...

Serpentinite, a metamorphic rock of modest appearance, has not only been a material revered by ancient cultures, but modern ...

Metagabbros with a transitional greenschist-amphibolite-facies mineralogy are exposed on the lower slopes of the eastern wall of the axial valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 06°N. These metagabbros ...

Along submarine mountain ranges, the mid-ocean ridges, forces from the Earth's interior push tectonic plates apart, forming new ocean floor and thus moving continents about. However, many features of ...

Less than a century ago, people expected the ocean floor to be as featureless as the surface of the water above. However, underwater explorations revealed quite the opposite: towering mid-oceanic ...

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