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    The Macdonald hotspot (also known as "Tubuai" or "Old Rurutu") is a volcanic hotspot in the southern Pacific Ocean. The hotspot was responsible for the...
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    (Réunion hotspot) Ninety East Ridge (Kerguelen hotspot) Tuamotu–Line Island chain (Easter hotspot) Austral–Gilbert–Marshall chain (Macdonald hotspot) Juan...
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    initially formed 12 million years ago by the Macdonald hotspot, a hotspot associated with the Macdonald seamount. Over the next 10 million years, erosion...
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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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  • on Macdonald, and the vents are populated by hyperthermophilic bacteria. Macdonald seamount is the currently active volcano of the Macdonald hotspot, a...
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    previously expected. Arago hotspot Rarotonga hotspot Macdonald hotspot Russell, Jamie A. "Hotspot Lesson: Samoan Hotspot". Enduring Resources Earth Science...
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    Arago is part of a family of hotspots in the southern Pacific, which include the Society hotspot and the Macdonald hotspot among others. These are structures...
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    being formed by the Macdonald hotspot, its age is too young, and its formation is attributed to a short-lived Rarotonga hotspot, or to rejuvenated volcanism...
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    South Pacific where the postulated tracks of the Samoa, Macdonald, Rurutu, and Rarotonga hotspots all cross paths with one another. While the concept has...
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    hotspot Macdonald hotspot Marquesas hotspot Ngatemato seamounts Pitcairn hotspot Rarotonga hotspot Samoa hotspot Tarava Seamounts Tasmantid hotspot Taukina...
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    coastlines. The chain is associated with the Macdonald hotspot. The only active volcano is the Macdonald seamount (40m depth). In administrative terms...
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    seamounts, with the Society hotspot, Rurutu hotspot, Rarotonga hotspot and the Macdonald hotspot being candidate hotspots responsible for the development...
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    It is believed that a number of hotspots such as the Macdonald hotspot, the Rarotonga hotspot and the Rurutu hotspot may have been involved in the formation...
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    the Macdonald hotspot which went through this area 20 million years ago and explains Mangaia nearby. If its formation started with that hotspot it would...
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    superswell. Such hotspot volcanism may be the product of shallow processes. Research has suggested that the Macdonald hotspot, and the Rurutu hotspot are long...
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  • reaches a depth of 33 metres (108 ft). It may have been created by the Macdonald hotspot. Another theory sees in the seamount the endpoint of an alignment...
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    visualized under many hotspots, including the Pitcairn, Macdonald, Samoa, Tahiti, Marquesas, Galapagos, Cape Verde, and Canary hotspots. They extended nearly...
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  • Taukina seamounts (category Hotspots of the Pacific Ocean)
    Taukina seamounts are a series of seamounts on the Pacific Plate. The Macdonald hotspot and the Ngatemato seamounts are located nearby. The Taukina and Ngatemato...
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    Louisville Ridge Louisville hotspot – A volcanic hotspot that formed the Louisville Ridge in the southern Pacific Ocean Macdonald seamount – A seamount in...
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  • plume called the Foundation hotspot that is located close to the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. It is possible that this hotspot generated additional volcanoes...
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    to hotspots such as the Cobb hotspot, Caroline hotspot, Hawaiian hotspot, Marquesas hotspot, Tahiti hotspot, Pitcairn hotspot, Macdonald hotspot and...
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    by the same hotspot, but also intersect with older seamounts along the hotspot highway left by the Macdonald, Rurutu, and Rarotonga hotspots and feature...
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    probably formed by a hotspot in what is present-day French Polynesia before plate tectonics moved it to its present-day location. The Macdonald, Rarotonga, Rurutu...
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    the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, formed by volcanic activity over a hotspot in the Earth's mantle. The islands are about 1,860 miles (3,000 km) from...
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    rocks and was probably a shield volcano at first; the Macdonald, Rarotonga, Rurutu and Society hotspots may have been involved in its formation. After volcanic...
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  • Such a lineament may have been generated by a hotspot; the nearby Easter hotspot is a candidate hotspot. The region lies between and around the islands...
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  • south may also be possible and would be consistent with that of the Macdonald hotspot. Argon–argon dating has yielded ages of 119.6–124 million years for...
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    Beaumont Street expected to remain closed until tomorrow as crews deal with hotspots". Oxford Mail. 19 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015. "Oxford's Randolph...
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    Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount (category Hotspot volcanoes)
    Kīlauea. Macdonald's hypothesis placed the seamount as the newest volcano in the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, created by the Hawaiʻi hotspot. However...
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    lithosphere. Hotspot ridge interactions can be observed in two ways: interactions between propagating rifts and a fixed hotspot or a migrating hotspot. Interaction...
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