Hawaiian Hotspot (IMAGE)

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Hawaiian Hotspot

Caption

This is the movement of the Pacific plate across a mantle hotspot created the Hawaiian islands over millions of years.

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National Geophysical Data Center/USGS/Wikimedia Commons

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