A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics. This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the ...

Only two other underwater eruptions have been observed in real time before, and neither of those happened along an ocean ridge. But a staggering 80 percent of our planet’s volcanic and seismic ...

Last month, RPI researchers were the first to ever collect data during an underwater eruption on the Mid Ocean Ridge System. They happened to be on site to gather data from hydrothermal vents.

An NOAA photo of the holes found in the ocean floor, 1.6 miles underwater. ... For the researchers, it highlights how there are still gaps in our basic understanding of mid-ocean ridge ecosystems.

New discoveries on how underwater ridges impact the ocean's circulation system will help improve climate projections. An underwater ridge can trap the flow of cold, dense water at the bottom of ...

The cradle of the tectonic plates: the underwater mid-ocean ridges. As a recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award, ...

The presence of a mid-ocean ridge doesn’t exaggerate biomass and biodiversity at all in the North Atlantic–not even close, in fact. This is the cool result from the ECOMAR project , a large multi-year ...

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 ...

Most of the world’s volcanic activity occurs at the boundaries between tectonic plates, where underwater mountain ranges called mid-ocean ridges are found. “At these mid-ocean ridges the ...