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What is the chain of volcanic islands that form parallel to a deep ocean trench?
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What American islands are actually an underwater chain of volcanoes?
The American islands that are actually an underwater chain of volcanoes are the Hawaiian Islands. These islands were formed by volcanic activity from the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain. The islands of Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and others are all part of this volcanic chain.
What is a chain of volcanic islands?
Hawaii.
What does volcanic island arc mean?
Volcanic arcs form at plate subduction zones. Island arcs are volcanic islands that form over "hot spots" in the Earth's mantle. Because the islands are moving with the oceanic plate, they eventually are removed from the hot spot, forming a chain of islands in the direction of the plate movement.
What island arc?
The definition of the word island arc is " a curved chain of volcanic islands located at a tectonic plate margin, typically with a deep ocean trench on the convex side."
How many islands does the Hawaiian chain consist of?
The Hawaiian chain consists of 137 islands, but only 6 main islands are typically included in maps and tourist itineraries: Hawaii (also known as the Big Island), Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, and Lanai.
What chain of volcanic islands seperates the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean?
The Aleutian Islands.
What country is a chain of volcanic islands in the pacific ocean?
japan
What islands are in the Aleutian islands?
A chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones form the Aleutian Islands.
What chain of volcanic islands separates the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean?
Aleutian Islands
What are groups of volcanoes called?
If it is a single island, it is simply known as a volcanic island! If however it is a chain or string of separate islands then it may be a volcanic island arc (these form parallel to trenches at subduction zones) or a volcanic island chain (these form where a mantle plume creates a hotspot and may be in the centre of a tectonic plate. A good example would be the Hawaiian island chain). They can also form a cluster of islands (an archipelago) such as the Canary Islands (again formed by hotspot volcanism) in the Atlantic of the coast of Morocco.
What is the name of the volcanic chain of islands that is part of Alaska and protrudes into the pacific ocean?
The Aletian Islands.
Are there volcanoes in Pacific Ocean?
Yes. Hawaii is a chain of volcanic islands.
