An unprecedented effort to map the seafloor bordering California's coastline ... offshore San Francisco shows off some “sensational geography,” including a deep scour pool beneath the Golden ...

Only a vague outline of this bizarre landscape was visible on the old map, which had a resolution of 27,000 square feet per pixel, actually quite good for the seafloor. But it wasn’t good enough ...

National Geographic also took notice of the maps ... to shape how both scientists and the public think about the seafloor. The map was finished just weeks before Heezen died of a heart attack ...

About 20 miles (32 kilometers) off the Californian coast, the 10,500-pound (4,7630-kilogram) remote submersible Doc Ricketts swept its strobe lights and sonar pulses across the seafloor like a ...

There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock ...

She is one of the most underappreciated scientists in the history of the earth sciences. Though Marie Tharp was a geologist whose work contributed to the ultimate acceptance and success of the ...

The search of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 didn't uncover the missing airliner, but revealed previously undiscovered volcanoes, mountain ridges and deep trenches studded with shipwrecks and anchors.

Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don’t have very good maps. Researchers announced Friday that they’ve completed a map for just over ...

Also, offshore wind farm developers need to know the composition of the seafloor to anchor turbines. Mapping the ocean floor may also help protect vulnerable marine habitat, or aid in finding ...

Our seafloor maps will be used with other geospatial information by ... “The Kiribati project highlights the efficiency and cost effectiveness of SDB technology in a geographic area too remote and ...

If you can harken back to your elementary geography class, for a moment, picture the size of Rhode Island on a map. Tiny ... size of the world’s deep ocean floor that’s been seen by human ...