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Hawaii is over a hot spot, which is an especially hot portion of the mantle created by a mantle plume. In the upper mantle this can melt some of the rock, generating magma. This then rises to the surface to form volcanoes.

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The Hawaiian Islands are made up of SHIELD volcanoes! The hot spot is now off the southern tip of the big island of Hawaii as the chain slowly moves on its western trek across the Central Pacific. (reefannie)

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The Hawaiian Islands are a series of Shield Volcano cones.

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