Active Volcanoes Mark the End of the Chain (IMAGE)

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung

Active Volcanoes Mark the End of the Chain

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The Hawaiian-Emperor Chain is an example of a hotspot track - a trail of volcanic islands and seamounts created on a lithospheric plate as the plate slowly shifts over a spot of localized melting sourced by a jet of hot material rising from the deep mantle (mantle plume). For more details see the release.

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T. Torsvik et al. (GFZ)

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