Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

More information: Yuanhai Fu et al, Projected changes in extreme snowfall events over the Tibetan Plateau based on a set of RCM simulations, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters (2023).

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Publishing their findings in Nature Geoscience, the team says Tamu Massif appears to be an oceanic plateau that formed through a process called seafloor spreading.

How did the continents form? Although to a certain extent this remains an open question, the oceanic plateau of the Kerguelen Islands may well provide part of the answer, according to a French ...

Eddy's work supports the hypothesis that Siletzia was an oceanic plateau or island chain built along a northeast-trending spreading center.

Sager said other, bigger volcanoes could be awaiting discovery at other oceanic plateaus, such as Ontong Java Plateau, located north of the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

Made of basalt, Tamu Massif is the oldest and largest feature of an oceanic plateau called the Shatsky Rise in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

“Central Afar represents the early stage of development of a specific type of oceanic plateau: a rifted oceanic magmatic plateau,” the paper reads.

The thick oceanic plateau formed from the impact can get hot enough at its base that it also melts, producing the kind of granitic rock that forms buoyant continental crust.