Over the last two decades, marine biologists have discovered lush forests of deep-sea corals and sponges growing on seamounts (underwater mountains) offshore of the California coast. It has generally ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Researchers have discovered a pair of seamounts on the ocean floor that serve as inflow and outflow points for a vast plumbing system that circulates water through the seafloor. The ...

The mystery of how an Antarctic underwater volcano chain formed may have finally been solved. The Marie Byrd Seamounts are a group of eight large volcanoes and many small cones spanning the seafloor ...

A seamount sitting on a subducting tectonic plate off the coast of Japan and plowing its way into Earth's mantle may be at the root of several magnitude 7 earthquakes in the past 40 years. When you ...