Before now, we didn't know this because oceanic plateaus are huge features hidden beneath the sea.

The role of oceanic plateau subduction in the Laramide orogeny.

Flood basalts on the ocean floor produce oceanic plateaus.

And other volcanic behemoths could be lurking among the dozen or so large oceanic plateaux around the world, he thought.

The tide raced inward as he struggled with the rope; the forefront of an oceanic plateau.

"For anyone who wants to explain oceanic plateaus, we have new constraints," he told LiveScience.

There were lots of oceanic plateaus (that) erupted during the Cretaceous period (145-65 million years ago) but we don't see them since.

This isn't the biggest oceanic plateau.

Floating volcano Oceanic plateaus are the biggest piles of lava on Earth.

One hypothesis claims that the flat-slab is caused by the ongoing subduction of an oceanic plateau.

Shatsky Rise, an oceanic plateau in North Pacific is named after him.

The Shatsky Rise is an oceanic plateau southeast of Japan.

These environments include spreading ridge, oceanic plateau, atoll, trench fill, and possibly arc.

Despite their huge size and distinctive morphology, oceanic plateaus remain among the least understood features in the ocean basins.

Very large oceanic volcanic constructions, hundreds of km across, are called oceanic plateaus.

Oceanic plateaus extending into the ocean, north and south of the island, are off-shoots of these formative forces.

This phenomenon is also the most common explanation for flood basalts and oceanic plateaus (two types of large igneous provinces).

Oceanic plateaus are massive piles of lava whose origins are still a matter of active scientific debate.

It comprises a 5-km thick oceanic plateau sequence of submarine komatiite-basalt lava and volcanic sediments.

Some have theorized that the copious amounts of volcanic material also lead to the formation of oceanic plateaus at this time.

The Chesterfield Islands, 550 km to the north-west, are reef outcroppings of the oceanic plateau.

Sager and his colleagues have studied Shatsky Rise for decades, seeking to solve the puzzle of oceanic plateaus.

Flat slab subduction can commonly be explained by oceanic plateau subduction and a fast overriding plate.

The first stage began in 25 Ma and lasted until 8 Ma, corresponding to the initial rifting of the oceanic plateau.

Tamu Massif's new status as a single volcano could help constrain models of how oceanic plateaus form, Sager said.