What is Shatsky Rise?
[[File:EmperorSeamounts.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Location of Shatsky Rise]] The '''Shatsky Rise''' is an [[ocean]]ic [[plateau]] southeast of [[Japan]].<ref name=tm>{{cite web|url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/05/tamu_massif_discovered_to_be_a_single_volcano/|first= Rik|last= Myslewski|date= 2013|title= The Solar System's second-largest volcano found hiding on Earth|publisher= The Register}}</ref> It lies on the floor of the [[Pacific Ocean]].<ref name=tm/> It includes what may be the largest [[volcano]] yet discovered on Earth, the [[Tamu Massif]].<ref name=Nat>{{cite journal |url=http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v6/n11/full/ngeo1934.html |title= An immense shield volcano within the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, northwest Pacific Ocean|journal=Nature GeoScience |year= 2006 |volume=6 |pages=976–981 |first= William W. |last= Sager |issue= 11|doi= 10.1038/ngeo1934 }}</ref> The Rise and its volcanics may have formed during the [[Upper Jurassic]] to [[Lower Cretaceous]] [[Epoch (geology)|epochs]]. It is at the [[wikt:triple|triple]] [[junction]] of three [[tectonic plate]]s.<ref name=sp>{{cite journal |url= http://specialpapers.gsapubs.org/content/388/721.abstract |title= What built Shatsky Rise, a mantle plume or ridge tectonics? |publisher= GSA |journal= Special Papers |year= 2005 |volume= 388 |pages= 721–733 |first= William W. |last= Sager |doi= 10.1130/0-8137-2388-4.721 |isbn= 9780813723884 }}</ref> These are the [[Pacific Plate|Pacific]], the [[Farallon Plate|Farallon]], and the [[Izanagi Plate|Izanagi]].<ref name=sp/> It was named after [[Nikolay Shatsky]] (1895-1960), a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[geologist]]. He was an [[expert]] in [[tectonics]] of ancient [[Platform (geology)|platforms]]. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Oceanography]] [[Category:Volcanoes of Asia]] {{geo-stub}}