Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate has been brought back into view. In one of Earth's most tectonically ...

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Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for over 160 million years. Known as Pontus, this tectonic giant once covered ...

Researchers discovered new undersea faults on the Pacific plate, some of which are thousands of meters below the surface of the ocean and hundreds of kilometers long. Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project A ...