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Where is loihi found?
It is an active undersea volcano that is located in Hawaii.
Is it possible for a new island to form on the hawaiian island chain?
Yes. Currently a volcano named Loihi is building up off the coast of the big island. In a few hundred thousand years it will reach the ocean surface and form a new island.
What land form is Honolulu located on?
An island in hawaii
How does elevation effect Hawaii?
by the way of the island is form
What is Hawaii's newest island?
The Big Island of Hawaii is the newest of the islands. However, a few thousand years from now a new island will form - is already forming! - as underwater volcanoes contribute to the building of a new island southeast of the Big Island.
What land form would a volcano create?
It could create and island like in Hawaii.
How many islands in Hawaii?
There are many islands, but seven main islands. However, in Hawaii's hotspot, another island, Loihi is being created. It hasn't reached above sea level yet, but is already three miles high in the ocean. That would mean that there will be eight islands once Loihi reaches above sea level.
What is the difference between an island arc and an island chain?
An island arc is a curved chain of islands formed by the subduction of one tectonic plate beneath another, creating volcanic activity. An island chain, on the other hand, is a linear alignment of islands not associated with subduction but often formed by hotspot volcanism or seafloor spreading.
What are facts about loihi?
The Loihi volcano is a type of volcano known as a shield, undersea volcano or a seamount. Such volcanoes form over hotspots while the sea floor moves over it.
Which islands did the kilauea volcano form?
Kilauea makers up part of Hawaii (the big island).
On which island is Mauna Loa located on?
Mauna Loa is a large shield volcano on the "big island" of Hawaii in the US state of Hawaii. Mauna Loa occupies more than half the island and erupts almost continuously, adding to the land area of the island with its lava flows. Hawai'i is the latest island of the Hawaiian islands to form. It is believed that all five of the existing islands (and some sea mountains) were formed by the same type of crustal rift that is feeding Mauna Loa. As the Pacific Plate slid over a "hot spot" in the underlying mantle, magma escaped to make new eruptions and form new islands. (see related link)
What is the volcano that began to form nearly one million years ago and that filled in half of Hawaii?
* the volcano called island.
