Geology of the Pacific Ocean Geology of the Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean evolved in the Mesozoic from the Panthalassic Ocean, which had formed when Rodinia rifted apart around 750 Ma. The first ocean floor which is part of the current Pacific Plate began 160 Ma to the west of the central Pacific and subsequently developed into the largest oceanic plate on Earth. The tectonic plates continue to move today. The slowest spreading ridge is the Gakkel Ridge on the Arctic Ocean floor, which spreads at less than , while the fastest, the East Pacific Rise near Easter Island, has a spreading rate of over
Nansen dialogue Nansen dialogue Nansen Dialogue is the name of a project initially created at the Nansen Academy in Lillehammer in 1995, as a counter-reaction to the fact that when Lillehammer was hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics there was a war in process in the former Winter Olympics City of Sarajevo. The former head master of the Nansen Academy, Inge Eidsvåg, visited the rehabilitation ward for war injuries of the Kosovo Hospital in Sarajevo in 1994, and this visit triggered the idea of the Nansen Dialogue Project. "I visited the rehabilitation ward for war injuries of the Kosovo Hospital in Sarajevo in