Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography SAN FRANCISCO — Using satellite maps, a team of Australian and U.S. researchers has found a small tectonic plate or microplate in the Indian Ocean and ...

Researchers today published the most detailed map of the ocean floor ... This gravity information shows the details of the plate tectonic history of the rifting of these continents including ...

The maps, which can be accessed through a new interactive website, reveal the lost eighth continent’s tectonic profile ... of New Zealand’s volcanoes, plate boundary and sedimentary basins ...

Abyssal hills — parallel ridges that are just hundreds of feet tall — are formed by the movements of tectonic plates ... helped the team further refine maps of tectonic boundaries and ocean ...

This super-detailed map of the ocean floor's topography is ... study's map lets you drag a time bar to simulate the movement of tectonic plates. The ocean's surface may seem pretty flat when ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean ... of feet tall — are formed by the movements of tectonic plates. Using SWOT data, the team mapped individual ...

Scientists have identified a long-lost tectonic plate ... to the long-suspected plate, according to scientists at Utrecht University. Findings have been detailed in a new study led by Suzanna ...

But we also hope this map will help people better understand the science of plate tectonics ... same technology to build a detailed representation of Earth’s tectonic evolution.

New scientific models mapping the Earth’s tectonic plates could help to sharpen our collective understanding of natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, scientists have said.

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean ... of feet tall — are formed by the movements of tectonic plates. Using SWOT data, the team mapped individual ...