Such spooktacular stories may soon be put to rest. In 2019, the U.S. began a seafloor mapping initiative that included the Great Lakes. The project should be able to take note of sunken vessels or ...

EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, NSW 2015, Australia ...

Standard topological mapping using acoustic sensors struggles ... this very rich data on sub-seafloor geology,” says Kitoh. The system generates its beam by interacting two higher-frequency ...

Improved maps of the seafloor are essential to safe navigation, protecting the marine environment and helping us understand Earth’s climate and geological history. Features of the ocean floor ...

Benthic habitat mapping and seafloor classification are essential for understanding marine ecosystems and managing marine resources. These processes involve identifying and categorizing the ...

brought back from drilling operations in the open sea and dredged from the seafloor north of New Zealand to map the extent of various geological formations. They discovered large submersed ...

but her work is really about seafloor spreading, which occurs at the mid-ocean ridges that she was the first to map,” says ...

The final of the ocean XPRIZE, which will see fleets of robots compete to map the largest area of seafloor inside 24 hours, will take place in deep waters off the coast of Greece. Teams will be ...

A massive seafloor eruption at Axial Seamount could reshape Earth in 2025, with hundreds of daily earthquakes signaling an ...

Geochemical analyses link the geologic histories of the South Pacific Islands of Fiji, Vanuatu, and Samoa. This map shows the tectonic features of the area studied. (Credit: Gill et al, 2022) ...

University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the ... The study, led by geology postdoctoral associate Jingchuan Wang, focused on the ...