The crust encompasses the brittle and shifting continental plates; it becomes scarred with mountains when the plates grind together or with deep ocean basins when the plates pull apart. (discovermagazine.com)
The new find confirms that the ancient lavas formed at midocean ridges and found throughout deep ocean basins are by volume the largest ecosystem on Earth, scientists say. (sciencemag.org)
Ice Sheet (WAIS), representing 3 - 4 m of potential sea - level rise, is capable of flowing rapidly into deep ocean basins. (nap.edu)