How do hotspot volcanoes provide a window into the processes that have shaped our planet over billions of years?

In geology, hotspots (or hot spots) are volcanic locales thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle ... 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 ... Hotspots at the seafloor create subsea volcanoes; building upward, they ultimately become volcanic islands. Hotspots are stationary but the crusts above them ... May 4, 2020 ... Non-hotspot volcano chains from small-scale sublithospheric ... Short-lived and discontinuous intraplate volcanism in the South Pacific: Hot spots ... Jan 4, 2019 ... Based on observations mainly made on the Hawaiian volcanoes the compositional evolution of hotspot volcanoes is believed to reflect the ... Auckland's volcanoes are powered by a 'hot spot' deep beneath the surface. The hot spot is a zone of magma fed by a plume of hot rock rising up out of the ... May 6, 2022 ... Most hotspot volcanoes are basaltic (e.g., Hawaii, Tahiti). As a result, they are less explosive than subduction zone volcanoes, in which water ... Sep 9, 2013 ... Thousands of earthquakes occur every year on and around Hawaii Island, or the Big Island. Most of these temblors are too minor to be felt, but some are strong ... Sep 5, 2013 ... image: This is a map view of seismic shear-wave speed in the earth's upper mantle, highlighting the slow wave-speed channels (warm colors) ... ... hotspots have a mantle plume underneath them. Shiki Machida, one of the volcanologists onboard, has done research that shows that some small hotspot volcanoes ...