Scientists have issued a dark warning after making a disturbing discovery in the depths of the ocean. An international team ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

This last category is not really a depositional basin, but a recognizable sequence of rock that we understand as a slice of ocean floor. An ophiolite consists of this sequence (top to bottom): Fine ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers from the ...

thanks to erosion depositing unfathomably large amounts of sediment into the ocean basin on deep time scales. Instead, we found an underwater landscape far more varied than expected. The abyssal ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car dow ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...

The study, titled "Deep ocean cooling and freshening from Subpolar North Atlantic ... line makes this survey a key component of the world's longest-running trans-basin observation program for studying ...

basins, fracture zones, and hydrothermal vents. It encompassed nearly the entire depth range of deep-sea fish habitats (1,218–7,730 meters) and yielded 11 deep-sea fish species from six major ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...