I came across a beautiful map of a fairly large area of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean yesterday and wanted to share it for this week’s Sea-Floor Sunday. I have a few snapshots of the map in ...

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

In the latest map, as many as 20,000 previously unknown seamounts, between 1.5 and 2 kilometres high, pop into view scattered along relatively young sections of the sea floor, says Sandwell.

A map of the North Sea showing the distribution of buried channels (tunnel valleys) that have been previously mapped using 3D seismic reflection technology. (Image credit: British Antarctic Survey ...

In order to map the ocean floor, Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has aggregated twenty years of data from almost 500 ship cruises and 12 different institutions.

A map shows the path of the MV Stena Immaculate tanker and Solong cargo ship that collided off the coast of England in the North Sea, March 10, 2025. Yann Schreiber and Paz Pizarro/AFP via Getty ...

Most tsunamis start with earthquakes under or near the ocean floor. The seafloor provides habitat for fish, corals and complex communities of microbes, crustaceans and other organisms.

The Sea Floor Spread The Earth's longest mountain chain isn't the Andes in South America, or the Himalayas in Asia, or even North America's Rockies. It's an underwater chain of mountains 47,000 ...

A World War II shipwreck is still leaking explosives and other elements into the ocean floor of the North Sea 80 years after it sank. It’s one of thousands of wrecks that could be influencing ...