The discovery, made just off the coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean, shows that a section of the oceanic crust is slowly breaking apart beneath the North American Plate. Using seismic data ...

Geophysicist LeRoy Dorman, who studied the seismic structure of the seafloor and developed key tools for the study of seismic and acoustic signals, died Feb. 13. He was 85. Born Oct. 15, 1938, Dorman ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The deep ocean ...

Imaging the structure of the deep seafloor is critical to understanding the biology and ecology of the largest living space on our planet. But to date, only about 20% of the ocean floor has been ...

New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ends up on the sea floor. New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

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Plastics are piling up all around us, and now, scientists say, they're also piling up on the ocean floor. New research estimates that up to 11 million metric tons (more than 12 tons) of plastic ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a ...

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 ...