The ocean covers almost 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, and over 95 percent remains unexplored. With so much of the ocean still a mystery, any new deep-sea discovery has the potential to reshape ...

In the summer, take advantage of the flat water at Blowing Rocks to paddle board and snorkel to see different rocky formations in the ocean. There is no lifeguard on duty, so be careful swimming ...

Once exposed to the atmosphere, these fragments weather into rocks called smectites that eventually settle back onto the ocean floor. There ... weak layer charges (clay minerals look like long flat ...

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume. Over 400 million years ago, an upwelling of hot rock from ...