Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them extremely important in climate research. This led ...
Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.
As the early surf pioneers began to observe, and as advances in more recent wave forecasting has confirmed, there are a few ...
Scientists have uncovered what appears to be the scattered remains of an ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean.
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In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago, but ...
Even the oceans aren’t level. Hidden beneath the swells, Earth’s gravity subtly rises and falls—leaving a quiet “dip” in the ...