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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.
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 .
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]
Historically, Bougainville and Buka, together with the islands of Choiseul, Santa Isabel, the Shortlands, and Ontong Java, which are all now part of the country of Solomon Islands, formed the German Solomon Islands Protectorate, the geographical area later being referred to as the North Solomon Islands.
Ontong Java Atoll or Luangiua, one of the largest atolls on earth Ontong Java flying fox (Pteropus howensis), a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae Ontong Java Plateau , a huge underwater oceanic plateau located in the Pacific Ocean, lying north of the Solomon Islands
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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]
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 ...