Formation of hotspots
- Created by: GraceBedford
- Created on: 19-05-16 11:30
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2. What are created soon as a result of submarine volcanic eruptions
- Seamounts
- Islands
- Island Arcs
3. What happens to older inactive islands
- Get attcked by marine erosion and fall below sea level as seamounts
- Nothing
- They eventually fall into the sea
4. How are new volncaic islands formed
- Plume is continous so eruptions are frequent, seamounts eventually build up enough to reach the surface
- Plates rising from under the sea
- Build up of debris
5. Why is magma created as the plume rises
- Due to a fall in pressure (decompression melting)
- The lithosphere melts
- Its already there
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