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Details of a 120-million-year-old tectonic plate once a quarter the size of the Pacific have been revealed long after the section of crust was largely subsumed into Earth's innards.
Field research in the mountain belts of Japan, New Zealand, New Guinea, Borneo and the Philippines revealed the remains of a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean.
The existence of the Pontus plate was predicted based on anomalies left by subducted plates in the Earth's mantle, study finds.