So at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the seafloor is raised up higher than the surrounding abyssal plains. This means that the amount of pelagic biomass in the overlying water column is lower (fish, plankton ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge and A New Age of Geology As Tharp began assembling the data into a coherent image of the ocean floor, she noticed something strange—a continuous ridge ran down the center ...

An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is where tectonic plates meet. “This area we’re exploring is where new sea floor is actually made and pushing apart tectonic plates—so [it has] ...

The CAMP eruption eventually became the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. New seafloor forms at this ridge and slowly spreads outward. Today, the Atlantic Ocean is still widening by a few centimeters every year.

Oceanographers have discovered a previously uncharted field of hydrothermal vents along the mid-Atlantic ridge – the first to be explored north of the Azores. Researchers studied an area 3,000 ...

The Mid-Atlantic ridge grows to the north beginning to separate North America and Greenland away from Scandinavia, and the first evidence of what will become the Iceland hotspot emerges.

The 434-mile-long Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the world’s longest mountain range and appears like a giant wall down the middle of the Atlantic. The #LostCityVents team has just successfully located a ...