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

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have discovered massive underwater sediment waves made of mud and sand around 400 kilometers (248 miles) off the coast of Guinea-Bissau using ...

Sediments from Pacific Highs preserve vital information on past ocean warming, extinctions, and circulation shifts.

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 ...

Researchers recently discovered sediment is thicker than previously thought, potentially increasing shaking during a future ...

According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa indicate the Atlantic Ocean ...

Los Angeles sits above an enormous bowl of sediment that alters how seismic waves move under the city (Credit: Getty Images) Southern California is frequently shaken by earthquakes. How they feel ...

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 ...