The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously ...

The present solid Earth is actually active, with new plates generating in the mid-ocean ridges and some old plates sinking back into the interior through subduction zones. Subduction is thus a key ...

This study is led by Dr. Jian Lin (Southern University of Science and Technology) and Dr. Fan Zhang (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). “Water is crucial to ...

Our models showed that, because of the high pressures and temperatures in the subsurface at the hydrothermal vents, the organic materials in the sediments decompose under supercritical conditions, ...

The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where the Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously formed. This is ...