The spreading of the seafloor has slowed, and scientists aren’t sure why The slowdown could mean a drop in greenhouse emissions from volcanoes, which are affected by the seafloor-creating process ...

A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Geologists want to know why the seafloor is getting sluggish.

Prof Müller says: "Our model suggests that characteristic 26 million-year periodicity in the slow carbon cycle is instead driven by fluctuations in seafloor spreading rates that in turn alter the ...

Learn more about this seafloor mapping initiative and how having a clear understanding of seafloors can help in ecological and economic safety.

Experts have reconstructed the depth of the Southern Ocean at key phases in the last 34 million years of the Antarctic's climate history ...

Stratigraphic inversion, or reverse stratigraphy, occurs when younger layers sink down, and the older ones rise to the top of ...

Here we present a global analysis of marine gravity-derived roughness, sediment thickness, seafloor isochrons and palaeo-spreading rates7 of Cretaceous to Cenozoic ridge flanks.

Experts have reconstructed the depth of the Southern Ocean at key phases in the last 34 million years of the Antarctic's climate history.