The explosive force of a volcanic eruption comes from gas trapped in the magma. The magma that feeds Mauna Loa has a low gas content.
Mauna Loa is not located on a plate boundary. Mauna Loa is caused by a stationary hot spot in the Earth's mantle.
Mauna Loa was formed by a hot spot, not plate interactions. Currently, the movement of the Pacific Plate is carrying Mauna Loa away from the hot spot that formed it.
No. Mauna loa is on a hot spot. Transform boundaries do not produce volcanoes.
The Hawaiian Islands were formed by coalesing shield volcanoes. These volcanoes are exclusively composed of Basalt lava. The lava does not readily trap gas and flows very easily giving Mauna Loa, and Kiluaea there pronounced rounded shapes we see today.
What type of magma is produced in mauna loa?
Mauna loa erupts mafic lava.
The explosive force of a volcanic eruption comes from gas trapped in the magma. The magma that feeds Mauna Loa has a low gas content.
Mauna Loa is not located on a plate boundary. Mauna Loa is caused by a stationary hot spot in the Earth's mantle.
Mauna Loa was formed by a hot spot, not plate interactions. Currently, the movement of the Pacific Plate is carrying Mauna Loa away from the hot spot that formed it.
No. Mauna loa is on a hot spot. Transform boundaries do not produce volcanoes.
The volcano, Mauna Loa, located in the United States on the big island of Hawaii, was created by a hot spot. Mauna Loa has erupted 35 times in counting.
The Hawaiian Islands were formed by coalesing shield volcanoes. These volcanoes are exclusively composed of Basalt lava. The lava does not readily trap gas and flows very easily giving Mauna Loa, and Kiluaea there pronounced rounded shapes we see today.
The Hawaii hotspot.
The Hawaii hot spot
hot spot
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