Hawaiian hotspot

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The Hawaiian hotspot is a long-lived volcanic plume in the Earth's mantle that has created the Hawaiian Island chain and associated seamounts as the Pacific Plate moves over it.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Hawaiian hotspot canonical 5
Hawaii hotspot 2
Hawaii hotspot volcanic system 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf intraplate volcanic hotspot
mantle plume
ageEstimate at least 70 million years
over 80 million years
associatedWith Pacific Ring of Fire
surface form: Pacific Ring of Fire (indirectly via plate context)
associatedWithPlate Pacific Plate
causes Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
surface form: Hawaiian–Emperor volcanic chain

intraplate volcanism in Hawaii
created Emperor Seamounts
Hawaiʻi (island)
surface form: Hawaii (island)

Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
surface form: Hawaiian Ridge

Kahoʻolawe
surface form: Kahoolawe

Kauaʻi
surface form: Kauai

Lānaʻi
surface form: Lanai

Lōʻihi Seamount
surface form: Loihi Seamount

Maui
Meiji Seamount
Molokaʻi
surface form: Molokai

Niihau
Oahu
currentSurfaceExpression Kīlauea
surface form: Kilauea

Mauna Loa
depthOrigin deep mantle
possibly core–mantle boundary
discoveredBy J. Tuzo Wilson
eruptionStyle effusive eruptions
evidenceFrom Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
surface form: Hawaiian–Emperor bend

age progression of volcanoes
geochemical signatures of lavas
futureSurfaceExpression Lōʻihi Seamount
surface form: Loihi Seamount
hasBendInChainAt about 43 million years ago
hotspotTrackLength over 6000 kilometers
hotspotType oceanic hotspot
locatedIn Earth's mantle
locatedInRegion central Pacific Ocean
locatedUnder Pacific Plate
motionRelativeToPlate nearly stationary
plateMotionOverHotspot northwestward motion of Pacific Plate
produces alkalic basalt
flood basalt lavas
shield volcanoes
tholeiitic basalt
studiedInField mantle dynamics
plate tectonics
volcanology
theoryProposedBy J. Tuzo Wilson
theoryProposedInYear 1963
volcanismType basaltic volcanism

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Long Mountain overlies Hawaiian hotspot
subject surface form: Mauna Loa
Detroit Seamount formedBy Hawaiian hotspot
Canary hotspot volcanic system relatedTo Hawaiian hotspot
this entity surface form: Hawaii hotspot
Hualālai volcano partOf Hawaiian hotspot
subject surface form: Hualālai
this entity surface form: Hawaii hotspot volcanic system
Hualālai volcano overlies Hawaiian hotspot
subject surface form: Hualālai
this entity surface form: Hawaii hotspot
Old Faithful geyser heatSource Hawaiian hotspot
subject surface form: Old Faithful
this entity surface form: Yellowstone hotspot
Mokuʻāweoweo tectonicSetting Hawaiian hotspot