An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Take a deep dive into the ocean’s secrets. ExtremeTech reveals its hidden layers and life forms. Discover the depths of our ...

When rifting is successful, the new ocean basin gets wider and wider. New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary, and the edges of the now-split continents get farther apart. The now fully ...

A mesmerizing new visualization of ocean currents from NASA has been compared to the Starry Night painting of Van Gogh.

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 ...

A tropical cyclone and a hurricane are the same phenomenon. What they’re called depends on the ocean basin they form in. In the Atlantic Ocean, these atmospheric heat engines, fueled by ocean ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. We present full-depth zonal sections of total dissolved cobalt, iron, manganese, and labile cobalt from the South Atlantic Ocean. A ...