More than 71% of Earth is covered by oceans, but about 95% of them remain unexplored. Only about 20% of the seafloor has been ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral role in marine geology and may cause destructive tsunamis that can ...

Jessica Irving has received funding from the National Science Foundation to work with MERMAID. She is a member of the Earthscope Oceans Science Committee and was involved in the research study ...

Far out in the Atlantic, Bermuda rises from the ocean floor with no obvious reason to be there. It is not perched on a spreading ridge, nor does it sit above a classic deep mantle plume like Hawaii.

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

New study reveals that the Earth's mantle was not as hot when Pangaea began to break apart millions of years ago.

Earth’s magnetic poles have flipped many times since the planet was formed, so that half the time what we think of as the magnetic north pole was actually south, and vice versa. These flips are not ...