Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, Scientists Witness the Seafloor Spread in Real Time, Giving Them a Rare Glimpse at a Mysterious Geologic Process

Across a matter of days in 2024, the seafloor in part of the Indian Ocean dropped by about 13 feet, and roughly 5.7 billion ...
The Verge

Watch this ultra-detailed animation of the seafloor

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. A NASA and CNES satellite lets ...
Indiatimes

Scientists witness first-ever seafloor spreading event as 160 million cubic metres of lava create new ocean floor

For most of human history, the creation of new ocean floor has been something inferred rather than witnessed. Geologists could map ancient scars on the seabed, measure the slow movement of tectonic ...
Nature

Sea-floor spreading captured by undersea observatory

A sea-floor monitoring experiment observed oceanic crust being created between two tectonic plates — the first in situ measurement of this phenomenon. Read the paper: Anatomy of a seafloor spreading ...