“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor ...

That ridge, it was later discovered, extended through the major oceans of the world. It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge. In 1953, American physicists Maurice Ewing (1906-1974) and Bruce Heezen ...

As it cools down, the lava creates a long line of mountains under the ocean called the Mid-ocean Ridge - the longest mountain range on Earth. The longest mountain range on land is the Andes in ...

For example, a mid-oceanic ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent ...

Wirewalker deploy: this is a collaboration with the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool. Wirewalker is a package of instruments that uses wave ...