Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

What if the most telling indications of an impending volcanic eruption are buried deep under the ocean, or in a fleeting succession of tiny quakes that no one perceives? As volcanoes of the Pacific ...

ACCORDING to the ideas of Hess1 the backbone of active mid-oceanic ridges should consist of peridotites which originated in the Earth's mantle and were subsequently upthrusted into the crust along ...