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What is the name of the Hot spot in the middle of the Pacific plate?
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What type of plate boundary does mt kilauea have?
None. Kilauea is in the middle of the Pacific Plate, It is the result of a hot spot rather than a plate boundary.
Was Kilauea a constructive or destructive plate margin?
Niether. Kilauea is in the middle of the Pacific plate, thousands of miles from the nearest plate boundary. The volcanic activty is due to a hot spot.
Why are the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Plate?
The Hawaiian islands are not the result of plate techtonics, they are the result of volcanic activity relating to a particular hot spot in the Earth's mantle, from which a plume of hot magma rises upward and causes volcanic eruptions.
Is mt Fuji created by hot spot?
no it was created when the eurasian plate and the pacific plate collided
What type of volcano is formed at a weak spot in the middle of a plate?
Shield volcanoes are often formed over hotspots that are independent of plate boundaries... thus, at a weak spot that could be in the middle of a plate.
What type of plate boundary does mt kilauea have?
None. Kilauea is in the middle of the Pacific Plate, It is the result of a hot spot rather than a plate boundary.
Which 2 plates converged to form kilauea?
None. Kilauea formed at a hot spot in the middle of the Pacific Plate.
Was Kilauea a constructive or destructive plate margin?
Niether. Kilauea is in the middle of the Pacific plate, thousands of miles from the nearest plate boundary. The volcanic activty is due to a hot spot.
Why are the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Plate?
The Hawaiian islands are not the result of plate techtonics, they are the result of volcanic activity relating to a particular hot spot in the Earth's mantle, from which a plume of hot magma rises upward and causes volcanic eruptions.
Kileuea on tectonic plates or several plates?
Kilauea, the volcano is on one plate, the pacific plate, and it is right in the middle. The only reason the Hawaiian archipelago is there is because of a hot spot. There is pressure in the middle of the plate which causes magma to shoot up out of the top even though it is nowhere near a plate boundary. The reason that volcanoes become dormant is because over the years, the pacific plate moves over the hot spot, causing new volcanoes to form, therefore forming the Hawaiian islands.
Is mt Fuji created by hot spot?
no it was created when the eurasian plate and the pacific plate collided
How did hawaiin islands form?
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.
What type of volcano is formed at a weak spot in the middle of a plate?
Shield volcanoes are often formed over hotspots that are independent of plate boundaries... thus, at a weak spot that could be in the middle of a plate.
What plate does Hawaii sit on?
Actually, the Hawaiian Islands were not formed by plates colliding together. They are in fact in the middle of the Pacific plate. They were formed by a hot spot. A hot spot is a spot in the inside of a plate and magma rises up to the surface and becomes a volcano. The reason why there are multiple islands is because the Pacific Plate is moving. Once an island moves completely away from the hot spot it becomes an extinct volcano.
Is kilauea a converging plate boundary?
No. Kilauea is not associated with any plate boundary. It is associates with a hot spot under the Pacific Plate.
What formed the island maui?
A volcanic 'hot spot' in the pacific techtonic plate.
What plate is Kilauea on?
Mount Kilauea (in Hawaii) does not lie on a plate boundary. The Hawaiian volcanoes occur in the middle of an oceanic plate.This lead people to theorize that Hawaii must lie over a hot spot on the earth caused by some underlying mechanism. The concept of a mantle plume was developed to explain the Hawaiian hot spot, and the theory of mantle plumes has become something of a geological dogma. Recent research papers on the subject hotly contest the existence of mantle plumes and provide other mechanisms to explain hot spots. See the links below.
