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All three rock types (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic) could be formed due to the presence of a hot spot or plume, although igneous rock would seem most obvious. Currently there is a debate occurring on the origin of so-called "hot spots". See related link below.
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What type of land forms from a hot spot?
islands like Hawaii
How do mountains form over hot spots?
Any mountian that forms over a hot spot is volcanic. The molten rock rises to the earth's surface in a mantle and forms a volcano
What type of rock is formed after magma or lava cools and hardens?
the name of the type of Rock it forms is igneous rock. it is made in lots of ways and can be made into other rocks like granite and sandstone.
How is a hot spot trail different from a volcanic island arc?
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.
What type of boundary does a hot spot have?
A hot spot is not associated with a plate boundary.
What type of land forms from a hot spot?
islands like Hawaii
How do mountains form over hot spots?
Any mountian that forms over a hot spot is volcanic. The molten rock rises to the earth's surface in a mantle and forms a volcano
What type of rock is formed after magma or lava cools and hardens?
the name of the type of Rock it forms is igneous rock. it is made in lots of ways and can be made into other rocks like granite and sandstone.
How is a hot spot trail different from a volcanic island arc?
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.
What type of boundary does a hot spot have?
A hot spot is not associated with a plate boundary.
What type of plate boundary is involved in volcano kilauea?
None. Kilauea and all the Hawaiian volcanoes were created by a hot spot rather than a plate boundary.
What features form a hot spot?
A hot spot is in earths mantle.a hot spot is an area where material from deep within the mantle rises and then melts, forming magma and volcano forms above a hot spot when magma erupts and reaches the surface.
What causes magma to form at hot spots?
A volcanic hot spot forms from upwelling magma usually due to the subduction of a tectonic plate. As plates move over this area new volcanoes are formed. +++ A hot spot alone is the top of a convection plume in the Mantle, not above subduction. This type of hot spot can lead to continental rifting.
What is an unusually hot area deep in Earths mantle that melts the crust above it and forms a volcano?
A hot spot. An example of a hot spot are the islands in Hawaii which were made from hot spots.
What kind of hot spot is in yellow stone park?
It's a fixed spot from below the mantle - the same type as the one that forms the Hawaiian Islands. And when it blows it will ruin America (for about a thousand years).
How does an island chain form over geologic hot spot?
A Hot spot is stationary in time and burns though the solid lithosphere creating an island through volcanic eruptions. The lithosphere is separated into plates that move around so if a hot spot occurs under an oceanic plate it forms a island and as the plate moves (and the hot spot does not) it forms a chain of islands (as the plate moves over the hot spot). This is how the Hawaiian chain is formed.
Do shield volcanos form at a transform boundary?
No type of volcano forms at transform boundaries, unless an unconnected event (hot spot) creates it. Basically, no.
