{"id":264774,"date":"2023-10-17T20:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=264774"},"modified":"2023-10-17T20:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T14:38:05","slug":"pontus-plate-scientists-discover-ghost-of-ancient-mega-plate-that-disappeared-20-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pontus-plate-scientists-discover-ghost-of-ancient-mega-plate-that-disappeared-20-million-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontus Plate: Scientists discover ghost of ancient mega-plate that disappeared 20 million years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cPontus Plate: Scientists discover ghost of ancient mega-plate that disappeared 20 million years ago\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>\u201cScience Alert\u201d on 17th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost tectonic plate named \u201cPontus Plate\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is a Pontus Plate?<\/b><\/h2>\n

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The Pontus plate is a tectonic plate that disappeared about 20 million years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

It has been recently discovered in the West Pacific Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

It has been named as Pontus Plate as it once<\/span> existed beneath an ancient ocean known as the Pontus Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

Features: <\/b>The plate was formed at least 160 million years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 It was approximately a quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 It eventually disappeared as it was subducted beneath the Australian and Chinese plates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Significance:<\/b> This discovery provides insight into Earth’s geological history and plate movements.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are Tectonic Plates?<\/b><\/h2>\n

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Source:<\/strong> NCERT<\/p>\n

A tectonic plate (also called lithospheric plate) is a massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock. It is generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

A plate may be referred to as the continental plate or oceanic plate depending on which of the two occupy a larger portion of the plate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pacific plate is largely an oceanic plate whereas the Eurasian plate may be called a continental plate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Important Major Plates:<\/b> 1) Antarctica and the surrounding oceanic plate 2) Pacific plate 3) India-Australia-New Zealand plate among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Important Minor Plates:<\/b> 1) Cocos plate : Between Central America and Pacific plate 2) Nazca plate : Between South America and Pacific plate 3) Arabian plate : Mostly the Saudi Arabian landmass 4) Philippine plate : Between the Asiatic and Pacific plate 5) Caroline plate : Between the Philippine and Indian plate (North of New Guinea) and 6) Fuji plate : North-east of Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPontus Plate: Scientists discover ghost of ancient mega-plate that disappeared 20 million years ago\u201d published in \u201cScience Alert\u201d on 17th October 2023 What is the News? Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost tectonic plate named \u201cPontus Plate\u201d. What is a Pontus Plate? The Pontus plate is a tectonic… Continue reading Pontus Plate: Scientists discover ghost of ancient mega-plate that disappeared 20 million years ago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,1],"tags":[11872,11332],"class_list":["post-264774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-science-alert","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":36,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698316382},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}