The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet. Eight major plates are named on the diagram below. Heat from the core makes magma in the mantle rise towards ...

A team of researchers has made strides in understanding the formation of massif-type anorthosites ... were rich in melts derived from oceanic crust altered by seawater at low temperatures.

And like an eggshell, the crust has cracked and split into many different pieces called tectonic plates. These plates can be oceanic ... are very common at this type of boundary as the mountains ...