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.

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 ...

How did freshened water end up beneath the New England Shelf miles offshore, how long has it been there, and how much of it ...

More information: Colleen A. Dalton et al, Consequences of a Global Slowdown in Seafloor Spreading for Sea Level and Mantle Heat Loss, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2025).

Geoscientists drilled more than 1 kilometer below the ocean's floor to collect an unprecedented amount of rock from the Earth's mantle.

Impossible Metals, a seafloor mining company based in California, is developing an underwater robot the size of a shipping container that uses artificial intelligence to hand pick nodules without ...

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. New oceanic crust forms ...

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.