Nazca oceanic crust volcanic provinces

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Nazca oceanic crust volcanic provinces are a set of submarine volcanic regions on the Nazca Plate characterized by extensive seamount chains and volcanic edifices formed by hotspot and plate-tectonic processes in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geologic province
submarine volcanic province
tectonomagmatic province
ageRange Cenozoic to present
associatedWith Nazca Plate motion
Pacific large-scale mantle upwelling
characterizedBy seamount chains
submarine volcanism
volcanic edifices
contains guyots
linear volcanic ridges
seamounts
submarine volcanic plateaus
environment deep-marine
eruptiveProducts hyaloclastite breccias
pillow lavas
formedBy hotspot volcanism
intraplate volcanism
mantle plume activity
plate-tectonic processes
formedDuring Cenozoic
geneticType intraplate seamount province
hostRock oceanic crust
identifiedUsing bathymetric mapping
gravity anomaly data
magnetic anomaly data
marine geophysical surveys
seismic reflection data
influencedBy Nazca Plate absolute motion NERFINISHED
spreading at the East Pacific Rise
subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath South America
locatedIn southeastern Pacific Ocean
locatedOn Nazca Plate NERFINISHED
magmaticComposition alkalic basalt
basaltic
tholeiitic basalt
partOf Pacific Ocean seafloor NERFINISHED
researchField geophysics
marine geology
plate tectonics
volcanology
studiedBy geophysicists
marine geologists
volcanologists
tectonicSetting Nazca Plate–South America Plate convergent margin region
oceanic plate interior
underlies southeastern Pacific Ocean water column
volcanicStyle effusive submarine eruptions

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Humboldt (Nazca) Seamount Chain partOf Nazca oceanic crust volcanic provinces