A tectonic plate “lost” under the Pacific Ocean for 60 million years has been reconstructed by scientists at the University of Houston.
Known as the Renaissance, the plate has been a controversial topic among geologists, as many believe it never was. Others believe it may have resulted in a Pacific Ocean volcano known as the Ring of Fire.
“Volcanoes form on plate boundaries, and the more plates you have, the more volcanoes you have,” Johnny Wu, an assistant professor of geology at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, said in a statement. “Volcanoes also affect climate change. So, when you’re trying to model the Earth and understand how the weather has changed over time, you really want to know how many volcanoes have formed on Earth.”
This image shows the plate tectonic reconstruction of western North America 60 million years ago, featuring three key tectonic plates, the Kula, the Faralon, and the Resurrection. (Credit: Spencer Fuston & Johnny Wu, University of Houston Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Natural Legage Natural Sciences and Mathematics)
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Researchers used a computer model of the Earth’s crust to reconstruct plates of the early Cenozoic era, which did not result in the death of dinosaurs shortly before the event of mass extinction.
At that time, there were a total of two tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean, Kula and Ferralon. These plates have long been sliding beneath the earth’s crust, a process known as subduction.
In 2013, a separate group of researchers found evidence that Ferralon was still present in Central California and Mexico.
In North America, a 3D blue block diagram shows an image of mental tomography, revealing the slab unfolding method used to flatten the Pharaon tectonic plate. By doing this, Fuston and Wu were able to find the lost resurrection plate. Credit: Spencer Fuston & Johnny Wu, University of Houston Department of Earth and Earth Atmospheric Sciences, Natural Science and Natural Science and Mathematics
There is so much magma in the modern-Alaska and Washington state that some geologists argue that there are long lost tectonic plates near the edge of the plate and subsequent volcanic remains.
Tectonic plates constantly revolve around the Earth’s surface and collide with each other, either forming mountains or sliding beneath each other, forming subduction zones.
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Spencer Fusten, lead author of the study, added, “We believe we have direct evidence that the resurrection plate exists.” “We are also trying to resolve and advocate for the debate that our data supports.”
The study is published in the scientific journal GSA Bulletin.
In 2019, Fox News reported that a tectonic plate “bark ka” ti “appears” on a beach off the coast of Portugal, could one day “shrink” the Atlantic Ocean.
In 2018, researchers learned an 8.2 magnitude earthquake that wreaked havoc in southern Mexico in September 2017 and killed 98 people, splitting the tectonic plate responsible for the quake.
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