The SWOT satellite, supported by NASA, has uncovered previously unknown underwater peaks, offering a fresh perspective on ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

Many of these structures were eventually lost, leaving behind only fragments preserved in today’s mountain ranges and ocean ... and the South China Sea. These discoveries suggest that the Pontus plate ...

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of ...

The digital bathymetric model of IBCSO Version 2 has a 500m x 500m resolution based on a polar stereographic projection (EPSG: 9354) for the area south of 50°S. I A new map of the seafloor of the ...

as shown on the map. These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge that extends along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean southern ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people ... its inexorable collision with southern Asia, including Tibet. The heavy ocean floor north of India acted like a giant ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... formed some of the mountains in the Andes of South America. At ocean-ocean convergences, one plate usually dives beneath ...

This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic slabs, is stored in minerals ... By contrast, the Indian Ocean, southeast Africa, and the south Atlantic Ocean sit above swaths of ...