An Overview of the Volcanoes in Hawaii and Their Histories (1251 words, 4 pages)
The volcanoes in Hawaii are formed on a chain of hotspots in the oceanknown as the Hawaiian Emperor Seamount chain. The hotspot locationclimaxes, resulting in a shield volcano, and then dies out, reappearing onthe trail of the chain, creating a new volcano. This is known as the platetectonics and hotspot ...
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