multicolored rock and sediment drilled from the seafloor beneath our ship. In the winter of 2022, I spent two months cruising the south Aegean Sea on board the International Ocean Discovery ...

Marine radiochemist Ken Buesseler said the accumulation of radioactive elements would be different depending on the element ...

Using a vibrating coring device mounted on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ROV SuBastian, the scientists gathered seafloor sediment cores from the Northern Patagonia Sea offshore to the Peru-Chile ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge ...

But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments of an ancient rainforest that covered the South Pole during the Cretaceous period.

Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but ...

Scientists have succeeded in reviving microbes retrieved from sediment deep under the seafloor in the heart of the South Pacific that had survived in a dormant state for 101.5 million years in ...

The findings suggest that as the Nadir asteroid struck, it liquefied the seafloor sediments and unleashed towering tsunamis.