The Biggest Volcanic Event in Earth’s History Transformed an Entire Oceanic Plate

Seismic data reveal that deep mantle volcanism reshaped the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau. A team led by Lecturer Azusa Shito of Okayama University of Science, working with Associate Professor Akira Ishikawa of the Institute of Science Tokyo and Professor Masako Yoshikawa of Hiroshima University, used seismic wave data to show that the [...]