They form in the middle of plates, far from any plate boundaries.
A hot spot forms when extra hot rock rises up from the lower mantle. Some of it melts just beneath the crust, forming magma. This magma then rises through the crust and erupts to form volcanoes.
A new volcano that is forming because of hot-spots is The Big Island in Hawaii. All the other islands were formed by hotspots too, but as the plates haved moved the active volcanos away from the hot-spots. This causes the volcano to become dormant. Many more islands will be formed, while older islands will slip away into the ocean.
Volcanoes form at hotspots and plate boundaries for very specific reasons. Although volcanoes form at both locations, their formation is for very different reasons.
A hot spot trail is the result of a plate moving over a stationary hot spot. Only the volcanoes near the hot spot. Those away from it in the direction of the plate's movement are extinct. A volcanic island arc is a chain of volcanoes that forms at a subduction zone, where one oceanic plate slides beneath another. The volcanoes in such an arc will be largely active.
None. Kilauea and all the Hawaiian volcanoes were created by a hot spot rather than a plate boundary.
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Yes. It sure does :l
A hot spot will often generate volcanoes. Many hot spots show a chain of extinct volcanoes in one direction, indicating that the plate moved over the stationary hot spot.
most volcanoes are formed from a hot spot in the earths crust.
its a hot spot
Yes, it is not uncommon to find volcanoes at hot spots.
A hot spot trail is the result of a plate moving over a stationary hot spot. Only the volcanoes near the hot spot. Those away from it in the direction of the plate's movement are extinct. A volcanic island arc is a chain of volcanoes that forms at a subduction zone, where one oceanic plate slides beneath another. The volcanoes in such an arc will be largely active.
Such volcanoes are hot spot volcanoes.
It forms volcanoes and sometimes islands like Hawaii.
Hot spot volcanoes are not associated with plate interactions.
Magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust which is what causes hot spot volcanoes to form
Yes. The Hawaiian Islands were formed by hot spot volcanoes.
Hot spot volcanoes are not associated with plate boundaries except where the hot spot is coincidentally near one.
A hot spot develops above the plume. Magma generated by the hot spot rises through the rigid plates of the lithosphere and produces active volcanoes at the Earth's surface. As oceanic volcanoes move away from the hot spot, they cool and subside, producing older islands, atolls, and seamounts.
None. Kilauea and all the Hawaiian volcanoes were created by a hot spot rather than a plate boundary.