• Underwater Volcanoes a hotbed of clues to Earth’s movements

    ByTeo Blašković

    Nearly half a mile of rock retrieved from beneath the seafloor is yielding new clues about how underwater volcanoes are created and whether the underlying hot spots of molten rock that lead to their formation have moved over time.Geoscientists have just completed an

  • Understanding the patterns of seafloor biomass

    ByTeo Blašković

    The vast majority of the biological production in the world's oceans occurs within sunlit surface waters – the so-called photic zone. Through the process of photosynthesis, tiny marine plants called phytoplankton use the energy of sunlight to build the carbon-rich