World First: Scientists Witnessed a Piece of Earth’s Oceanic Crust Being Born : ScienceAlert

Most of our planet’s crust is forged in a thalassic factory human eyes never see.

Across 65,000 kilometers (40,400 miles) of the ocean floor, a system of mid-ocean ridges marks the boundaries where Earth’s tectonic plates meet.

There, in ocean depths far from the light of the Sun, cataclysmic…