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The Ontong Java Plateau (OJP) is a massive oceanic plateau located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, north of the Solomon Islands. The OJP was formed around 116 million years ago (Ma), [ 1 ] with a much smaller volcanic event around 90 Ma.
The Shatsky Rise is Earth's third largest oceanic plateau, [1] (after Ontong Java and Kerguelen) located in the north-west Pacific Ocean 1,500 km (930 mi) east of Japan.It is one of a series of Pacific Cretaceous large igneous provinces (LIPs) together with Hess Rise, Magellan Rise, and Ontong Java-Manihiki-Hikurangi. [2]
The Hikurangi Plateau is an oceanic plateau in the South Pacific Ocean east of the North Island of New Zealand. It is part of a large igneous province (LIP) together with Manihiki and Ontong Java, now located 3,000 km (1,900 mi) and 3,500 km (2,200 mi) north of Hikurangi respectively. [2]
Ontong Java Atoll or Luangiua (formerly Lord Howe Atoll, not to be confused with Lord Howe Island) [2] is an atoll in Solomon Islands, and one of the largest atolls on earth. It is inhabited by a Polynesian community of about 2,400 people, who speak the Ontong Java language .
Chilcotin Plateau Basalts [e] Tortonian: 11.62 * Serravallian: 13.82 * Langhian: 15.97 M. Miocene disruption (14.8–14.5) [f] Columbia River Basalt Group [g] Chilcotin Plateau Basalts [e] Increased Antarctic deep waters Yellowstone hotspot Nördlinger Ries (14.5-14.3) Burdigalian: 20.44 Aquitanian: 23.03 * Shield volcanoes of Ethiopia [h ...
Ontong Java–Manihiki–Hikurangi Plateau: 121 Southwest Pacific Ocean 59–77 [n 5] Largest igneous body on Earth, later split into three widely separated oceanic plateaus, with a fourth component perhaps now accreted onto South America. Possibly linked to the Louisville hotspot. [49] [50] [51] Kerguelen Plateau–Broken Ridge 112
Salvage crews started towing a burning cargo ship loaded with thousands of cars to a temporary anchorage location off the northern Dutch coast on Sunday after smoke pouring from the stricken ...
Locations of oceanic plateaus in the Australia-New Zealand region. The Ontong Java Plateau and Hikurangi Plateau are related historically geologically to the Manihiki Plateauin the top right corner. The Manihiki Plateau is an oceanic plateau in the south-west Pacific Ocean. The Manihiki Plateau was formed by volcanic activity 126 to 116 million ...