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    The Hawaiʻi hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located near the namesake Hawaiian Islands, in the northern Pacific Ocean. One of the best known and intensively...
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    Hawaii, Iceland, and Yellowstone hotspots. A hotspot's position on the Earth's surface is independent of tectonic plate boundaries, and so hotspots may...
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    consists of the islands comprising the U.S. state of Hawaii. As it is the closest to the hotspot, this volcanically active region is the youngest part...
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    stopped August 2018. Almost all of the magma of the hotspot has the composition of basalt, and so the Hawaiian volcanoes are composed almost entirely of this...
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    shallow depths, a plume is often invoked as the cause of volcanic hotspots, such as Hawaii or Iceland, and large igneous provinces such as the Deccan and...
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    on Hawaiʻi island, now a tourist attraction in the Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park Shield volcanoes are found worldwide. They can form over hotspots (points...
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    Mauna Loa (redirect from Mauna Loa, Hawaii)
    The volcano's magma comes from the Hawaii hotspot, which has been responsible for the creation of the Hawaiian island chain over tens of millions of...
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  • direction and the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain had its attribution with the ridge. The Pacific-Kula Ridge lay south of the Hawaii hotspot around 80 million...
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    Mauna Kea (redirect from Mauna Kea (Hawaii))
    that form the island of Hawaiʻi, the largest and youngest island of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. Of these five hotspot volcanoes, Mauna Kea is...
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    The Galápagos hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the East Pacific Ocean responsible for the creation of the Galápagos Islands as well as three major aseismic...
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    Volcano (category Pages with Hawaiian IPA)
    kilometers (1,900 mi) deep within Earth. This results in hotspot volcanism, of which the Hawaiian hotspot is an example. Volcanoes are usually not created where...
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    the Hawaiian-Emperior chain. During the Early Oligocene period, the Louisville hotspot's magma source rate was much steadier than the Hawaii hotspot rate...
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    most hotspots, the East Australia hotspot has had explosive eruptions similar to the runny lava flows of the Hawaii hotspot, the Iceland hotspot and the...
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    Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount (category Hotspot volcanoes)
    Hawaiian Islands arise from the Hawaii hotspot, and as the youngest volcano in the chain, Kamaʻehuakanaloa is the only Hawaiian volcano in the deep submarine...
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    island's stage of development reflects its distance from the Hawaii hotspot. The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is remarkable for its length and its number...
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    undersea mountain range known as the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, formed by volcanic activity over a hotspot in the Earth's mantle. The archipelago...
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    feet (10,200 m). The Hawaiian islands were formed by volcanic activity initiated at an undersea magma source called the Hawaiʻi hotspot. The process is continuing...
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  • A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation. Norman Myers wrote about...
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    theory. The classic hotspot model (based mostly on studies of the Hawaii hotspot) predicts that, if plate movement over a hotspot is what created a volcanic...
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    The chain was produced by the movement of the ocean crust over the Hawaiʻi hotspot, an upwelling of hot rock from the Earth's mantle. As the oceanic crust...
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    Kīlauea (category Volcanoes of the Island of Hawaii)
    Kīlauea is the second-youngest product of the Hawaiian hotspot and the current eruptive center of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. Because it lacks topographic...
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    Kauai (redirect from Kauai, Hawaii)
    older), was formed volcanically as the Pacific Plate passed over the Hawaii hotspot. It consists of an eroded shield volcano with a 9.3–12.4 mi (15.0–20...
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    plate moves over the Hawaii hotspot. Numerous hotspots of varying size and age have been identified across the world. These hotspots move slowly with respect...
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    'drifting' over the hotspot. A characteristic of a “classic” hotspot, like the Hawaiʻi hotspot, results in islands located further from the hotspot being progressively...
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    The Iceland hotspot is a hotspot which is partly responsible for the high volcanic activity which has formed the Iceland Plateau and the island of Iceland...
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    Hawaii Climate of Hawaii Global warming in Hawaii Geology Hawaii hotspot Superfund sites in Hawaii Wildlife of Hawaii Fauna of Hawaii Birds of Hawaii...
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    Plateau around 120 million years ago. Hawaii hotspot, Meiji Seamount is the oldest extant seamount in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, with an estimated...
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    Haleakalā (category Hotspot volcanoes)
    mountain peaks of Hawaii List of Ultras of Oceania List of Ultras of the United States Hawaii hotspot Evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes Hawaiian–Emperor seamount...
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  • beneath the hotspot being deflected eastward by flow in the upper mantle seen in S-wave models. The Hawaii hotspot produced the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount...
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    Diamond Head is a volcanic tuff cone on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. It is known to Hawaiians as Lēʻahi (pronounced [leːˈʔɐhi]), which is most likely...
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