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

The Equatorial Atlantic Gateway (EAG) was critical to Earth's climatic and oceanographic evolution during the Mesozoic, yet its early opening history …

The Atlantic Ocean has not been a permanent feature of planet Earth.

Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.

A 9.2 km diameter rim, concentric normal faults and an extended damage zone are observed in 3-dimensional seismic reflection data from the Nadir crater offshore Western Africa and provide strong evide...

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The Equatorial Atlantic Gateway (EAG) was critical to Earth's climatic and oceanographic evolution during the Mesozoic, yet its early opening history …

The Guinea Plateau contains a ∼200-million-year stratigraphic record, encompassing the mid-Cretaceous opening of the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway (EAG). Here we present new 2D seismic data to constrain...

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