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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.
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What Hawaiian Islands were formed by which constructive process?
The Hawaiian Islands are formed by the ocean structures known as submarine volcanoes. They continue to build the Pacific islands.
What Hawaiian islands were formed by constructive process?
All of the Hawaiian islands were formed by volcanoes as lava flows piled up and cooled over the course of many years.
Are the hawaiian islands formed at a subduction boundary?
Not. The Hawaiian Islands are formed at a hot spot.
How were the Hawaiian formed?
It is thought that volcanoes formed the Hawaiian islands.
How were Hawaiian islands were formed?
Volcanoes formed the Hawaiian Islands over millions and millions of years.
Where the Hawaiian islands formed by earthquakes or volcanoes?
Hawaii was formed by centuries of volcanic magma boiling out. Hawaii and it's sister Islands are active volcanoes.
What Hawaiian islands formed first?
The oldest Hawaiian islands are Kauai and Niihau, which are believed to have formed around 5 million years ago. These islands are located in the northwest part of the Hawaiian island chain and are considered the oldest because they were the first to emerge from the volcanic activity that formed the islands.
The Hawaiian islands were formed?
From undersea volcanoes.
What oceans are the Hawaiian Islands formed by?
Volcanoes.
What are Hawaiian Islands are formed by?
Volcanic activity.
What modern process is thought to be similar to the way crust formed before plate tectonics began?
The formation of the Hawaiian Islands
Describe how the Hawaiian Islands formed in the Pacific Ocean?
it was formed be volcanos
