With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the understanding that plates' movement caused earthquakes, Alfred Wegener's idea of "continental ...

Sea-Floor Spreading Geophysical phenomena ranging from earthquakes to continental drift are being explained by a new theory that gives promise of eventually relating geomagnetism and the earth's ...

Scientists have now identified a strange slice of Earth deep below the Pacific that may explain why this region is currently creating the world's fastest spreading ocean ridge – the East Pacific ...

Earth bubbles and broils beneath Axial Seamount ... Axial is a factory for new ocean crust. The seafloor spreads out as molten rock emerges, reshaping the deep-sea landscape with each eruption.

Wang and his colleagues found the slab while exploring the mantle beneath the East Pacific Rise, a fast-spreading ... beneath the seafloor and create a digital cross-section of Earth's crust ...

With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the understanding that plates' movement caused earthquakes, Alfred Wegener's idea of "continental ...