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...
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Ontong Java Atoll or Luangiua (formerly Lord Howe Atoll, not to be confused with Lord Howe Island) is an atoll in the Solomon Islands, and one of the...
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Flood basalt (redirect from Plateau basalt)
igneous provinces, lava plateaus, and mountain ranges. However, more have been recognized such as the large Ontong Java Plateau, and the Chilcotin Group...
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largest intraoceanic large igneous province (LIP) in the world, the Ontong Java Plateau (approximately 1,900,000 km2 or 730,000 sq mi), and the world's largest...
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Woodlark Basin Manus Basin Louisiade Plateau Ontong Java Plateau Britain New Trench Woodlark Rise Papuan Plateau Trobriand Trough...
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The three largest plateaus, the Caribbean, Ontong Java, and Mid-Pacific Mountains, are located on thermal swells. Other oceanic plateaus, however, are made...
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Kerguelen Plateau (Indian Ocean) Iceland Plateau (Atlantic Ocean) Ontong Java Plateau, Manihiki Plateau and Hikurangi Plateau (southwest Pacific Ocean) Jameson...
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submarine volcanic plateaus, such as the Columbia River Plateau (subaerial) and the vast Ontong Java Plateau (submarine). Pyroclastic plateaus are produced...
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The Ontong Java Plateau today covers an area of 1,860,000 km2. In the Indian Ocean another LIP began to form at c. 120 Ma, the Kerguelen Plateau–Broken...
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provinces, such as Iceland, the Siberian Traps, Deccan Traps, and the Ontong Java Plateau, are extensive regions of basalts on a continental scale resulting...
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the Ontong Java Plateau, which were emplaced during the Selli Event. Other such provinces in the Pacific Ocean are the Hess Rise, Manihiki Plateau, Mid-Pacific...
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Earth". Other igneous features on the planet are larger, such as the Ontong Java Plateau, but it has not yet been determined if they are indeed just one volcano...
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million years ago the Manihiki Plateau formed part of the giant Ontong Java-Manihiki-Hikurangi plateau. The Manihiki Plateau extends from 3°S to 6°S and...
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cricketer Shaun Ontong (born 1987), Australian football player Ontong Java Atoll or Luangiua, one of the largest atolls on earth Ontong Java flying fox (Pteropus...
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Broken Ridge (redirect from Broken Ridge Plateau)
89×10^6 sq mi) making it the second largest LIP on Earth (after the Ontong Java Plateau in the Pacific). Both these enormous LIPs reaches 2–4 km (1.2–2.5 mi)...
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other Pacific plateaux around 120 Ma as part of the Ontong Java-Manihiki-Hikurangi mega-plateau, in which case Hikurangi must have drifted thousands...
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Drilling Program Leg 192 Preliminary Report: Basement drilling of the Ontong Java Plateau" (PDF). Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report 92. Ocean Drilling...
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palaeolatitudes for the Louisville hot spot and the Ontong Java Plateau". Origin and Evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau. Special Publications. Vol. 229. London:...
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Sea Kilinailau Trench North Solomon Trench Manus Basin Ontong Java Plateau West Melanesian Trench Mussau...
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Interval (BAWI). This hot climatic interval coincides with Manihiki and Ontong Java Plateau volcanism and with the Selli Event. Early Aptian tropical sea surface...
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"Rapid change in drift of the Australian plate records collision with Ontong Java plateau". Nature. 454 (7205): 754–757. Bibcode:2008Natur.454..754K. doi:10...
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List of flood basalt provinces (category Oceanic plateaus)
Plateau and Hikurangi Plateau were then part of the same large igneous province, forming the world's largest oceanic plateau. The Ontong Java Plateau...
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Subduction stopped about 10 million years ago with the collision of the Ontong Java plateau with the subduction zone. The name Lihir comes from the Patpatar...
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S. P. Manus Basin Louisiade Plateau Ontong Java Plateau Britain New Trench Woodlark Rise Papuan Plateau Trobriand Trough...
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Shatsky Rise (category Plateaus of the Pacific Ocean)
Kamchatka The Shatsky Rise is Earth's third largest oceanic plateau, (after Ontong Java and Kerguelen) located in the north-west Pacific Ocean 1,500 km...
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North Biak Basin North Flores Basin Northern East Java Basin Northern Makassar Basin Ontong Java Plateau Sawu Basin Southern Makassar Basin Talaud Basin...
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Kerguelen Plateau begins forming 110 million years ago. The Rahjamal Traps form from 117 to 116 million years ago. The Ontong Java Plateau forms from...
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"Rapid change in drift of the Australian plate records collision with Ontong Java plateau". Nature. 454 (7205): 754–757. doi:10.1038/nature07138. PMID 18685705...
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North Biak Basin North Flores Basin Northern East Java Basin Northern Makassar Basin Ontong Java Plateau Sawu Basin Southern Makassar Basin Talaud Basin...
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List of submarine topographical features (category Oceanic plateaus)
Plateau (Indian) Naturaliste Plateau (Indian) Ontong Java Plateau (Southwest Pacific) Shatsky Rise (North Pacific) Vøring Plateau (North Atlantic) Wrangellia...
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