How come the most volcanic place on Earth is nowhere near a plate margin? TOPS Top 10 Geography in conjunction with www.sln.org.uk/geography.

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How come the most volcanic place on Earth is nowhere near a plate margin? TOPS Top 10 Geography in conjunction with www.sln.org.uk/geography

Hawaiian Hot Spots The long trail of the Hawaiian hotspot Over the past 70 million years, the combined processes of magma formation, volcano eruption and growth, and continued movement of the Pacific Plate over the stationary Hawaiian "hot-spot" have left a long trail of volcanoes across the Pacific Ocean floor. The Hawaiian Ridge-Emperor Seamounts chain extends some 6,000 km from the "Big Island" of Hawaii to the Aleutian Trench off Alaska. The Hawaiian Islands themselves are a very small part of the chain and are the youngest islands in the immense, mostly submarine mountain chain composed of more than 80 volcanoes. http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap3-Plate-Margins/Mid-plate/Hawaiian-Islands TOPS Top 10 Geography in conjunction with www.sln.org.uk/geography

The hot spot issue The vast majority of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur near plate boundaries. The Hawaiian Islands, which are entirely of volcanic origin, have formed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean more than 3,200 km from the nearest plate boundary. In certain locations around the world, such as Hawaii, volcanism has been active for very long periods of time. This could only happen, if relatively small, long-lasting, and exceptionally hot regions -- called hotspots -- existed below the plates This would provide localized sources of high heat energy (thermal plumes) to sustain volcanism.. The shape of the Hawaiian Island-Emperor Seamounts chain resulted from the Pacific Plate moving over a deep, stationary hotspot in the mantle, located beneath the present-day position of the Island of Hawaii. Heat from this hotspot produced a persistent source of magma by partly melting the overriding Pacific Plate. TOPS Top 10 Geography in conjunction with www.sln.org.uk/geography

TOPS Top 10 Geography in conjunction with www.sln.org.uk/geography

Hawaiian Ridge The length of the Hawaiian Ridge segment alone, from the Big Island northwest to Midway Island, is about equal to the distance from Washington, D.C. to Denver, Colorado (2,600 km). The amount of lava erupted to form the Hawaiian-Emperor chain is calculated to be at least 750,000 cubic kilometers-more than enough to blanket the entire State of California with a layer of lava roughly 1.5 km thick. TOPS Top 10 Geography in conjunction with www.sln.org.uk/geography

Main areas of hot spot activity globally TOPS Top 10 Geography in conjunction with www.sln.org.uk/geography

How a Hot Spot works The magma, which is lighter than the surrounding solid rock, then rises through the mantle and crust to erupt onto the seafloor, forming a mound of solid magma Over time, countless eruptions cause this to grow until it finally emerges above sea level to form an island volcano. Continuing plate movement eventually carries the island beyond the hotspot, cutting it off from the magma source, and volcanism ceases. As one island volcano becomes extinct, another develops over the hotspot, and the cycle is repeated. This process of volcano growth and death, over many millions of years, has left a long trail of volcanic islands and sea mounts across the Pacific Ocean floor. The Hawaiian chain should get progressively older and become more eroded the further they travel beyond the hotspot. The oldest volcanic rocks are on Kauai, the north-western most inhabited Hawaiian island, are about 5.5 million years old and are deeply eroded. By comparison, on the "Big Island" of Hawaii – south-eastern most in the chain and presumably still positioned over the hotspot -- the oldest exposed rocks are less than 0.7 million years old and new volcanic rock is continually being formed. TOPS Top 10 Geography in conjunction with www.sln.org.uk/geography

TOPS Top 10 Geography in conjunction with www.sln.org.uk/geography

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