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A new study postulates there was an ancient ocean that no longer exists, given the planet's imperfect sphere shape

Northwest Pacific-Izanagi subduction histories along Eurasia are poorly constrained due to extensive subduction, which partially consumed the western Pacific plate and the entire Izanagi plate, its hypothesized conjugate margin. Here we reconstruct NW Pacific-Izanagi plate tectonics since Cretaceous times by mapping and structurally restoring (i.e. unfolding) the subducted western Pacific slabs from regional and global tomography, and re-creating the vanished Izanagi plate as its conjugate rift ...