Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...
He is currently leading a team of other scientists focused on mapping the surficial geology of the sea floor beneath the ...
The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic ... Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is ...
The Atlantic is the second largest ocean on the planet ... This toxic layer looks so dark it resembles the hole's floor but is actually a boundary which separates oxygenated water from oxygen ...
The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology. Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...