Hot spot at Hawaii? Not so fast

ENN
Aug 18, 2017, 3:01 pm28 pts
Through analysis of volcanic tracks, Rice University geophysicists have concluded that hot spots like those that formed the Hawaiian Islands aren’t moving as fast as recently thought.Hot spots are areas where magma pushes up from deep Earth to form volcanoes. New results from geophysicist Richard Gordon and…

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