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Mariana Trench “Deepest Part of the Ocean”

March 26, 2015

The 37 kiloton 'Priscilla' nuclear test, detonated at the Nevada Test Site in 1957. Credit: US Department of Energy

Radioactive carbon from nuclear bomb tests found in deep ocean trenches

Using magnetic data: Researcher uncovers 340 million year-old oceanic crust in the Mediterranean Sea

New Species Discovered Beneath Ocean Crust

Activity on seafloor linked to icy ebb and flow on surface

Ice ages made Earth’s ocean crust thicker

February 7, 2015

Oceanic Crust Breakthrough: Solving a Magma Mystery

January 3, 2013

New Seafloor Map Helps Scientists Find New Features

January 14, 2016

What lies beneath modern New England? Mountain-building and the end of...

April 27, 2014

The floor of the ocean comes into better focus

January 9, 2016

New sulfate-breathing species discovered beneath ocean crust

January 15, 2015

Breathing Underwater: Evidence of Microscopic Life in Oceanic Crust

September 29, 2013

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Ancient Earth’s hot interior created ‘graveyard’ of continental slabs

August 22, 2017

Dino rib yields evidence of oldest soft tissue remains

January 31, 2017

Halszkaraptor escuilliei

Synchrotron sheds light on the amphibious lifestyle of a new raptorial...

December 7, 2017

A New View of the Moon’s Formation

April 9, 2015

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Canadian Rocky Mountains

Study provides new insight into origin of Canadian Rockies

Seismic record captured by the seismometer installed in the ICTJA-CSIC during the Bruce Springsteen concert at Camp Nou on May 14, 2016. The upper panel shows the seismogram, while the lower panel shows the spectrogram where it is possible to see the distribution of the energy between the different frequencies. You can distinguish the different songs of the concert and highlight those performed during the encores towards the end of the concert

A seismometer is able to detect the earth shacking generated by...

Researchers gather extensive dataset from Icelandic volcano eruption

Graphic by University of Oregon scientists provides new structural information, based on supercomputer modeling, about the location of a mid-crustal sill that separates magma under Yellowstone.

Scientists decipher the magma bodies under Yellowstone