The world’s largest oceanic plateau formed more than 100 million years ago, but scientists have now found the ancient magma pathways still hidden beneath it |
For decades, scientists have known that the Ontong Java Plateau, the world’s largest oceanic plateau, was created by an extraordinary burst of volcanic activity more than 100 million years ago. What remained uncertain was how enormous volumes of magma travelled through the Earth’s lithosphere during that event. According to the study published in Advancing Earth…
