This process occurs on the deep ocean floor, where light cannot penetrate ... focus on deep-sea areas in the Pacific Ocean, including parts of the hadal zone, which extends to depths of 36,000 ...

The stronger currents, known as "giant whirlpools" or eddies, may reach the seafloor at the deepest parts of the ocean ... of sediment on the ocean floor over tens of millions of years.

There are also financial concerns. Two of the main metals available on the ocean floor are nickel and cobalt. Those have been key parts of electric car batteries, said Victor Vescovo, CEO of ...

More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists don’t often explore their slopes firsthand—or even their shallower summits ...

"Our major discovery here is that life in the deepest parts of our oceans is more diverse than it is in the ocean floor areas that surround these trenches," Virtasalo said. They found evidence of ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms ... materials are deposited on the sea floor from trench margins above.

He made four major combat landings, incuding Iwo Jima. His ship was equipped for sounding the ocean floor, which was useful for Hess both as ship's commander and as a geologist. In 1945 ...