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Details of a 120-million-year-old tectonic plate once a quarter the size of the Pacific have been revealed long after the section of crust was largely subsumed into Earth's innards.
The proposed Pontus plate as it existed 120 million years ago. Relics of the plate have been found in northern Borneo . ( Van de Lagemaat's investigations focused on the so-called Junction Region, one of the most complicated plate tectonic regions on Earth. It runs from Japan, through Borneo, the Philippines, New Guinea, and down to New Zealand.
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