the first island is Hilo and it fromed in 1959
It took about 5.0 million years for the hawiian islands to form.
100 years
No. The Hawaiian islands are formed by a mantle plume.
that were formed over hot spots
The Hawaiian Islands were formed by the movement of the tectonic plates under the ocean floor. When the plates shift magma is released, and land masses form.
Islands or lands formed by underwater volcanoes that erupt and dry to form these islands.
Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands are in a line due to the movement of the Pacific tectonic plate over a hot spot in the Earth's mantle, which creates a chain of volcanic islands as the plate drifts. As the plate moves northwest, new volcanic islands form while older islands erode and subside, resulting in the linear arrangement of the Hawaiian archipelago.
The Hawaiian Islands were formed by a hot spot in the middle of the Pacific Plate. Hot magma rises upward until it spills onto the sea floor, forming a hot spot.
The plate tectonics theory is not relevant to the formation of the Hawaiian Islands, but the theory explains why the islands formed in a chain. According to the theory, the plates move constantly. This caused the islands to form in a chain, as the hot spot under them does not move.
Kilauea is formed by a hotspot.A hotspot is a location on the Earth's surface that has experienced active volcanism for a long period of time.Without Kilauea,the Hawaiian islands won't exist!
Some islands are formed by volcanoes, but most are not.
From Volcanic Eruptions and when tectnotic plates move.
The Hawaiian Island Chain (consisting of 19 islands and atolls) are actually to tops sea-mountains known as the Hawaiian Ridge. It was form over thousands of years by volcanic activity over a "hotspot" in the Earth's mantle. Movement of the tectonic plates have moved the island chain slowly in a north by northwest direction, thus creating more islands (read mountains).