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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Do you know that humans have only explored 5% of the ocean? 95% of the ocean is still unexplored, holding countless mysteries ...

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 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 ...