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  • An especially large igneous province in the Pacific called the Ontong Java plateau, possibly caused by a meteorite impact, may have torn the crust of South America, resulting in a concentration of iron-rich rocks.

    New Suspects in a 65 Million-Year-Old Mystery Matt Ridley 2011

  • He peeped in at Ontong-Java Atoll, inspected his plantations on Ysabel, and purchased lands from the salt-water chiefs of northwestern Malaita.

    THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN 2010

  • Nobody ever comes to Lord Howe, or Ontong-Java as it is sometimes called.

    MAUKI 2010

  • In the Louisiades he planted the first commercial rubber, and in Bora-Bora he ripped out the South Sea cotton and put the jolly islanders at the work of planting cacao. it was he who took the deserted island of Lallu-Ka, colonized it with Polynesians from the Ontong-Java Atoll, and planted four thousand acres to cocoanuts.

    A SON OF THE SUN 2010

  • Grief stops along the way to mind his various business enterprises: to Tui Manua, Eastern Samoa, to the Gilberts, Ontong-Java Atoll, Ysabel, Malaita — "And all along this devious way he made a man of Aloysius Pankburn."

    “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

  • The surface geology of the islands consists predominantly of volcanic rocks, with some metamorphic rocks, uplifted coral islands (Rennell, Bellona, and Ontong Java), and recent (Pliocene to recent) alluvium in the lowlands.

    Solomon Islands rain forests 2008

  • The atolls of Ontong Java, which are also part of this ecoregion, qualify as a Secondary Area because they provide habitat for an additional species, the atoll starling (Aplonis feadensis), which is also found off of small islands in the Bismarck Archipelago.

    Solomon Islands rain forests 2008

  • B Mg/Ca in G. ruber shells from core-tops on the Ontong Java Plateau as a function of water depth.

    Hansen and Bracket Fatigue « Climate Audit 2006

  • They report on model output for plankton production in the Warm Pool at 165E, not too far from the Ontong Java Plateau.

    Hansen and Bracket Fatigue « Climate Audit 2006

  • It noted, but did not adjust for, preferential dissolution of Mg at depth in the Ontong Java Plateau OJP; they noted that failure to account for such dissolution would result in colder paleo-temperature estimates.

    Hansen and Bracket Fatigue « Climate Audit 2006

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