New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary ... In continent-ocean subduction boundaries, this sediment is deposited in the ocean above the trench itself. In ocean-ocean subduction ...
There is a location in the same trench, just to the north ... of the seawater at all levels down to the ocean floor. This information was crucial in correcting the echo-sounder depth readings ...
Researchers studying hydrothermal vents in the depths of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench have found tiny ... vents are small fissures in the ocean floor where seawater can seep through.
After all, we don't even know for certain that Challenger Deep really is the bottom-most spot on the ocean floor. Next up on Vescovo's journey is the South Sandwich Trench in the Southern Ocean.
A trivia question: can you name the largest country without an active volcano? Here ‘active’ includes ‘dormant’: it is about volcanoes that have access to live magma and could in principle erupt, ...
A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...