A research group has revealed through seismic wave analysis that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau—the ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – 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 ...

Scientists long wondered whether there were places on Earth where extremely hot material from the core of the Earth moves up through the mantle, and if these plumes were responsible for some volcanic ...

A new seismic study reveals that Earth’s largest volcanic event fundamentally transformed the oceanic plate beneath the ...