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What is the difference between hotspot volcanoes and volcanoes formed at plate boundaries?
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hotspot volcanoes are formed away from the edge of plate boundaries. Plate boundary volcanoes are near a plate boundary
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How are hot spots used to track plate movement?
Hot spots are at fixed locations in the Earth's mantle where heat from the Earth's interior rises to the surface and produces volcanism. The Earth's plates, which are slowly but constantly moving, are pierced by the uprising magma. As they move away from the hotspot, the volcanoes become dormant and are replaced by new volcanoes. The direction of the line formed from previous volcanoes indicates the direction of the plate movement.
What happens at a hotspot?
Hotspots are locations that are prone to volcanic activity.
How do hotspots form?
Hotspots are thought to form due to mantle plumes. This is the upwelling of high temperature material from deep within the mantle. This high temperature material causes partial melting of the shallow mantle and overlying crust leading to a "hotspot" and volcanism.
Why is Hawaii volcanic even though it does not lie on a fault line?
because it lies on a hotspot inside the pacific plate
What kind of plate boundary caused the Hawaiian islands to form?
none, it's just a hotspot in the middle of the pacific plate.
Do Hotspot volcanoes occur along subduction zones.?
No, hotspot volcanoes do not occur along subduction zones. They occur when plates pass over mantle hot spots.
Why don't all boundaries cause volcanoes?
Not all boundaries cause volcanoes because volcanic activity is primarily determined by the movement and interaction of tectonic plates. Volcanoes are mainly formed at divergent and convergent plate boundaries, where the plates either move apart or collide. Transform plate boundaries, where plates slide past each other, do not typically have volcanic activity. Additionally, the presence of a hotspot or a region with abnormally hot mantle material can also lead to volcanoes forming away from plate boundaries.
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Is volcano poas on a hotspot?
All active volcanoes ar on a hotspot, they have a magma chamber beneath them.
Hotspot volcanoes occur along subduction zones?
No
What causes volcano's to form?
Volcanoes can be caused by mantle plumes. These so-called hotspots can occur far from plate boundaries. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust.
What is far from plate boundaries but is still active?
That would be a hotspot.
What is far away from plate boundaries but still active?
A hotspot.
Give 2 examples of intraplate volcanoes with in the United States?
An intraplate volcano (or hotspot volcano) is one that is not located on a plate boundary. The Big Island of Hawaii is one example located within the Pacific Plate. In addition, Yellowstone National Park is located over a continental hotspot in the North American Plate. For a longer discussion of plate boundaries and their respective volcanoes, see the Plate Tectonics section. For more information regarding intraplate volcanoes see Hotspots.
HOW ARE VOLanoes formed?
Volcanoes are formed by the hotspot in the ground and turns it into a mountain which explodes.
What builds volcanoes?
When lava goes threw crust it forms a hotspot (valcano)
Why is it some areas along where two plate boundaries meet there are volcanos and in some areas there are none?
There are three types of boundaries: 1. Convergent 2. Divergent 3. Transform There are two types of plates: 1. Continental 2. Oceanic Volcanoes only form along convergent and divergent plate boundaries. To be exact, they only form along continental-oceanic convergent boundary, as well as oceanic-oceanic and continental-continental boundaries. At convergent boundaries, volcanoes are formed because of melting crust of the subduction plate (the oceanic plate subducting under the continental plate). They then seep out of the ground as subduction volcanoes. At divergent boundaries, volcanoes are formed because magma rise to the surface to fill the gap where the plates move apart. A third type of volcano that can form is a hotspot volcano. There exists a spot in the ground where magma is continuously rising. However, plates move so as the plates move, the volcanoes move with them. Hence, new volcanoes are formed and this creates a chain of volcanoes, such as Hawaii. Hope this helps! Sharon, 12th grade Geography student
