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Scientists Who Found Mysterious ‘Dark Oxygen’ on the Ocean Floor Plan a New Expedition, Hoping to Settle Disputes
Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...
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How This Plant INVADED the Mediterranean Sea
Atlas Pro How This Plant INVADED the Mediterranean Sea Posted: January 15, 2025 | Last updated: January 15, 2025 Right now, a mat of sea grass covers the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. Nothing ...
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Purpose-driven inventors: Bringing the sea floor to the surface
In the early 1950s, Marie Tharp began connecting dots to map the ocean floor, using sonar technology. Sonar detects underwater objects by timing the echo of a soundwave and was originally ...
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Magnetic bands provide evidence of sea-floor spreading
They suggested that as new sea-floor crust was formed around the rift in the midocean ridge, it magnetized differently, depending upon the polarity of the planet at that time. This supported the ...