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Giant volcanic superstructure the size of Idaho is found beneath the Pacific Ocean

The Melonesian Border Plateau, located in the South Pacific, is an oceanic mid-plate superstructure that looks like it was formed by one huge event. It wasn't though, scientists said.

Scientists say 'superstructures' exist on the seafloor

Scientists pieced together the history of a huge Pacific plateau and found a complicated story.

Pacific news in brief for 4 December

A round-up of news in brief from around the region.

U.S. scientists conducting Samoa area underwater research

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A project  that is studying the interactions among the Tonga slab, the Lau back-arc basin and the Samoan mantle plume, using seismology, geochemistry

Samoa Observer | US scientist study Samoa's ocean floor

A group of American scientists are currently studying Samoa’s underwater volcanoes and seamounts while deploying seismometers to the ocean floor.An American oceanographic research vessel, Thomas G. Thompson berthed at the Matautu wharf at dawn on Wednesday last week. It took a scientific party of...

Ocean floors, mountain peaks and space – Victor Vescovo has seen it all

Millionaire Victor Vescovo says it's been an ‘extraordinary privilege’ to explore different parts of the Earth

NASA researchers measure sinking land in American Samoa

Following powerful earthquake, American Samoa island is sinking

Tectonic Trouble: NASA measures sinking land in American Samoa

Greenbelt, MARYLAND — After the 8.1-magnitude earthquake in 2009 worsened land subsidence [sinking or settling] in American Samoa, NASA scientists introduced InSAR technology, reveal