Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and unlocked one of the most significant scientific revolutions of the century.

The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic ... Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

The Benguela Current is the eastern boundary current of the South Atlantic Ocean ... of the decomposition of animals and plants on the ocean floor. Since there is not enough light below 160 ...

Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less well known than the surfaces of Mars, Mercury or Venus and that charting the depth and shape of the seabed will help understand the impact ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered two well-preserved onion glass bottles from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean off the ...

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the "great global ocean conveyor belt" is slowing down. That's a problem because ...

the reef covers 1.3 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Both of the boats sunk Monday are 86 feet long and were sunk at a depth of about 75 feet, the department said in a news release.