English Society hotspot Cited by user SphericalSong on 09 Mar 2021 The Society hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the south Pacific Ocean which is responsible for the formation of the Society Islands, an archipelago of fourteen volcanic…
English Marquesas hotspot Cited by user SphericalSong on 09 Mar 2021 The Marquesas hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is responsible for the creation of the Marquesas Islands – a group of eight main islands…
English Ocean island basalt Cited by user 128.111.61.183 on 08 Jul 2019 The term Ocean Island Basalt (also known as OIB) is used to describe volcanic rock, usually basaltic in composition, erupted in the oceans away from tectonic plate…
English Mantle plume Cited by user Wnt on 07 Oct 2015 A mantle plume is a mechanism proposed in 1971 to explain volcanic regions of the earth that were not thought to be explicable by the then-new theory of plate tectonics.