Bacteria that live on iron were found for the first time at three well-known vent sites along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, one of the longest undersea mountain ranges in the world. Scientists report that these bacteria likely ...
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Mar 11, 2015
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have been awarded funding to explore how nutrients in the deep mid-Atlantic ocean are transported to the surface, where they support biological growth.
Earth Sciences
Apr 18, 2014
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Although long thought to be devoid of life, the bottom of the deep ocean is now known to harbor entire ecosystems teeming with microbes. Scientists have recently documented that oxygen is disappearing from seawater circulating ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2013
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Since the plate tectonics revolution of the 1960s, scientists have known that new seafloor is created throughout the major ocean basins at linear chains of volcanoes known as mid-ocean ridges. But where exactly does the erupted ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2013
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Three-fifths of Earth’s crust lies underwater, spread out along the seafloor. More than four cubic miles of ocean crust forms each year, constantly regenerating like new skin across the globe. This ocean crust arises ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2012
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Two new studies into the "plumbing systems" that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions.
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2012
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The retreat of Antarctica's fast-flowing Thwaites Glacier is expected to speed up within 20 years, once the glacier detaches from an underwater ridge that is currently holding it back, says a new study in Geophysical Research ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2011
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New discoveries on how underwater ridges impact the ocean's circulation system will help improve climate projections.
Earth Sciences
Feb 3, 2011
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