Now, researchers at the Heriot-Watt University have traced its formation event using 117-million-year-old “underwater mud ...

Scientists Discover 117-Million-Year-Old Underwater Sediment Waves, Show How the Atlantic Ocean Formed The Atlantic Ocean ...

The Atlantic Ocean may have formed millions of years earlier than previously thought, igniting a period of climate change, scientists found.

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in west Africa. The massive underwater ...

Waves that are spread apart ... The research is important because it helps scientists understand how sediment – the sand and ...

Normally, researchers might expect that this shaking would produce the thinnest sediment deposits in lakes farthest away from an earthquake, since seismic waves weaken as they travel away from an ...

The Atlantic Ocean was formed by the dramatic break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, splintering our planet into drifting landmasses that would become the continents we know today. Now, the ...