Why Do the Hawaiian Islands Form a Chain of Volcanoes

question 13

Multiple Choice

Why do the Hawaiian Islands form a chain of volcanoes?

• A) The mantle below flows slowly to the east, creating new volcanoes as it goes.
• B) The Hawaiian Islands are not part of a chain. They are over a stationary hotspot in the lithosphere.
• C) The crack in the lithosphere is progressively splitting eastward, permitting magma to rise along a line.
• D) The top of the basalt plume in the deep mantle is dragged eastward by moving lithosphere.
• E) The lithosphere carrying Hawaii slowly moves over a hotspot feeding basalt magma to the overlying volcano.

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