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Running for hundreds of miles along the northeastern edge of the Pacific region of Melanesia, the Melanesian Border Plateau is a geological graveyard of dead reefs and failed islands.
Experts believe that an undersea plateau in the Pacific Ocean continues to grow. Read more here. An undersea plateau in the Pacific Ocean the size of Idaho, which began to form during the Cretaceous period (145 to 66 million years ago) due to volcanic eruptions, is continuously growing now.