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Shifting Tectonic Plates May Determine How Long an Island Stays Above Sea Level (6 of 8)

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Shifting Tectonic Plates May Determine How Long an Island Stays Above Sea Level (6 of 8)

image: Ka'ula Island, Hawaiian Islands. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 1 Jan. 2020, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by K.L. Huppert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Hotspot swells and the lifespan of volcanic ocean islands." view more 

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