How do hotspot volcanoes fit into the broader context of Earth's dynamic systems?

The hotspots are creating volcanoes. Since the hotspot is mostly stationary when the tectonic plate moves it creates a new volcano. The action of the plates ... Shield volcanoes are built almost entirely of low viscosity (very thin, liquidity) fluid lava flows. Flow after flow pours out in all directions from a central ... ... hotspot volcanic islands that are remote from subducting plate boundaries. This has been driven by the very successful development of geothermal resources ... Jul 31, 2019 ... New data analyses from Rochester researchers show that the volcanic hot spots that helped form the Hawaiian islands are not fixed, but are in constant motion. Feb 11, 2020 ... A hotspot is a large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the Earth. A line of volcanoes develops as a plate moves over a hotspot. In an oceanic hotspot environment, for example Hawaii, dark, silica-poor basalt magma is produced. The runny basalt forms broad sloping shield volcanoes (Fig. 6) ... Apr 12, 2017 ... As the plate moves west-northwest, each volcano moves with it from its place of origin above the hot spot. The age and orientation of the ... Oct 24, 2012 ... Changes in pressure can be transmitted to both volcanoes." The Hawaiian Islands are hotspot volcanoes, formed as the Pacific plate moves ... Cabo Verde · Cape Verde Hotspot Volcano Group · Composite | Stratovolcano · Pleistocene. Mantle plumes and volcanic hotspots, distribution of hotspots, distribution of hotspots (Credits: K. Cantner, Earth Magazine), hotspot volcano chain Reunion.