Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...

Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the ...

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...

The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland ... It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology. Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...

Global warming is having an impact on Atlantic Ocean currents that could lead to significant shifts in weather patterns in ...

The Atlantic is the second largest ocean on the planet ... This toxic layer looks so dark it resembles the hole's floor but is actually a boundary which separates oxygenated water from oxygen ...

Read the paper: Continued Atlantic overturning circulation ... when salty water at the surface of the Southern Ocean cools and sinks to the sea floor. If the formation of bottom water (and the ...