Hot Spots

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/hcv.html
The Hawaiian Center for Volcanology features extensive information about the Hawaiian Island volcanoes which formed as the Pacific plate moved over a fixed hot spot within the Earth's mantle.

http://geowww.gcn.uoknor.edu/www/ascension/AI.HTM
Learn about the geology of Ascension Island, Saint Helena, and Tristan da Cunha - three volcanic hotspot islands located in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean.

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~gurnis/geodynamics.html
View images and movies of mantle convection computer models at Caltech's Seismological Laboratory Computational Geodynamics web page.


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