“Over two-thirds of the Earth’s surface was formed by volcanic eruptions at these mid-ocean ridges,” said Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist and Maggie Walker Dean of the UW College of the ...

Axial Seamount is situated at the boundary of the Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates, at a mid-ocean ridge where volcanic activity is common due to tectonic movement. Underwater volcanoes like Axial are ...