What new insights into Earth's deep interior are likely to emerge from future studies of hotspot volcanoes?

Feb 7, 2013 ... INTRODUCTION. In the framework of the hotspot concept, intraplate volcanism is typically related to stationary melting sources. Oct 24, 2012 ... Changes in pressure can be transmitted to both volcanoes." The Hawaiian Islands are hotspot volcanoes, formed as the Pacific plate moves ... A frequently-used hypothesis suggests that hotspots form over exceptionally hot regions in the mantle, which is the hot, flowing layer of the Earth beneath the ... ... hotspots have a mantle plume underneath them. Shiki Machida, one of the volcanologists onboard, has done research that shows that some small hotspot volcanoes ... 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 ... Jan 1, 2020 ... Island lifetime depends on the rate and magnitude of island subsidence, which, in turn, depends on the dynamics of the oceanic lithosphere and ... May 4, 2020 ... Non-hotspot volcano chains from small-scale sublithospheric ... Short-lived and discontinuous intraplate volcanism in the South Pacific: Hot spots ... Mar 23, 2023 ... Hotspot volcanoes can produce very large volumes of lava and have an important role in Earth's evolution and atmosphere. Today, famously active ... 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 1, 2009 ... Occasionally volcanoes can form right in the middle of a plate. These so-called “hotspot” volcanoes are created when a narrow stream of hot ...