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Royal Kunia is a community on the island of O'ahu in Hawaii. It begins with the letter r.

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The Hawaiian Islands are formed by these ocean structures?

sea mountsThe Hawaiian islands were formed by volcanoes. Volcanoes have two methods of formation, convergence of tectonic plates at the edges of the plates, and hot spots under the middle of plates. The Hawaiian islands and others in that area were formed when magma from the mantle rose to Earth's surface through a certain spot in the middle of the plate (i.e., the Pacific Plate for the Hawaiian Islands). This hot spot is situated beneath the center of the plate, and the volcano above moves with the plate as it moves, but the hot spot stays in place. This causes the original volcano to become extinct when its move cuts it off from its magma source and an island is born. A new volcano will then form above the hot spot again. This process repeats as the plate moves and a string of volcanoes (and eventually, islands) will dot the surface of the plate as the movement continues away from the hot spot.


What does it indicate about the island if the volcanoes are currently active?

Volcanic islands tend to owe their existence to the volcano. The same force that burns and buries the life that settles on them is the same force that created land to rise out of the sea in the first place. Without volcanic activity to continually add land to the islands, eventually erosion and other influences will wear the islands down to submerge them entirely under the sea. In the case of Hawaii, for instance, a fixed point in the mantle below the Pacific Plate is responsible for heating through the crust to create the Hawaiian volcanoes. The Pacific plate moves over this hot spot, so gradually a line of volcanoes are punched through the sea floor and older volcanoes are moved away from the hot spot. Several lumps under the sea to the northwest of the current northwesternmost island in the chain are all that remain of what were once Hawaiian islands.


Words relted to Iowa that begin with x?

No city or town in Iowa begins with the letter X. However, the following places in Iowa do begin with the letter X:Xavier High School, Cedar Rapids, IowaXanadu Place is the name of a street in Ames, IowaXavier Road is the name of a street in Fairbank, IowaXe Place is the name of a street in Ames, Iowa


Place with the highest earthquake in Richter scale in 2010?

The place with the highest magnitude on the Richter scale took place in the Solomon Islands on January 3, 2010. Luckily, no fatalities were recorded.