Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...

In my opinion, however, even the admiration she has received for her maps—including the “Atlantic Ocean Floor” map, published in 1968 in National Geographic magazine (included below)—doesn ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, is a giant system of ocean currents that shuttles warm surface ...

However, it almost immediately became stuck to the ocean floor ... Sea. It is currently making its way past the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and is heading toward the southern Atlantic ...

If you look back at the history of Atlantic ... ocean surface temperatures, ocean currents, global-scale wind patterns and atmospheric pressure gradients affect regional hurricane frequency. As ...

An animal that burrowed horizontally through the sea floor might have made these linear holes, says a marine zoologist Credit: NOAA At over 8,000 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean, scientists ...

The discovery of buried "mud waves" off the coast of western Africa reveals that the Atlantic Ocean was ... as part of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. The ocean-drilling project confirmed that ...

Similar openings on the sea floor were first spotted 18 years ago ... the waters along a volcanic ridge in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sea explorers using a remotely operated vehicle to ...

They lived and worked with the crew last month as it mapped the Atlantic Ocean floor 1,500 ... cruises used multibeam sonar to scan and map the ocean floor as part of a project titled Seabed ...

By attaching video cameras to sea lions' backs, researchers are not only learning about hyper-valuable endangered species habitat, but also expanding on their ability to map the ocean floor.