The Ontong Java Plateau, a volcanically-formed underwater plateau located in the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands, is younger and its eruption was more protracted than previously thought ...

The Ontong Java Plateau, a volcanically-formed underwater plateau located in the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands, is younger and its eruption was more protracted than previously thought ...

But one feature, the massive Ontong Java Plateau in the mid-Pacific Ocean, stood out as a mystery. At about 120 million years old and larger than Alaska, this seafloor plateau is the most ...

The Ontong Java Plateau may be implicated in another anoxic event called OAE 1b, which occurred between 114.5 and 110.4 million years ago, the authors say. Advanced Search. Home; ...

There, at the very edge of the Ontong Java Plateau, the researchers found 44-million-year-old volcanic rocks with geochemical fingerprints that match lavas from the Samoan hot spot.

June 15, 2023 — The Ontong Java Plateau, a volcanically-formed underwater plateau located in the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands, is younger and its eruption was more protracted than ...

The research, published in the latest edition of Nature, reveals that the Australian plate collided with the Ontong Java Plateau (OJP), the world's largest and thickest oceanic plateau, between 23 ...

The remote Ontong Java Plateau is found northeast of Australia past the Solomon Islands and is believed to have formed in the largest volcanic eruption in earth's history, some 122 million years ago.

But one feature, the massive Ontong Java Plateau in the mid-Pacific Ocean, stood out as a mystery. At about 120 million years old and larger than Alaska, this seafloor plateau is the most ...

A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come from? A new study may finally have the answer. Scientists have long ...