Ocean-floor plateaus are not voluminous lava flows from central volcanoes as thought, but anomalously thick oceanic crust, suggest magnetic anomaly patterns from the Shatsky Rise, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Whittaker, J.M. Plateaus from seafloor spreading. Nat. Geosci. 12, 587–588 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0416-5
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