how are plates moving at Kona?
What specific plates is Kona near/on?
2006-11-19 08:37:31 · 3 answers · asked by whitesoxfan111 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Oops - little mistake here. Yes most volcanoes and volcanic islands are found on plate boundaries. You picked on one of the few exceptions!!!
The Hawaii chain sits on a hot spot in the under mantle where lava came into contact with the upper mantle, found a weakness and broke through. A volcanic island was formed and as the upper mantle moves across the hot spot and covered it, the lava again finds it's way through and makes another volcanic island.
2006-11-19 08:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hawaii isn't on a plate boundary. Mona Loa is a protect volcano. Tokyo is on the Eurasian/Pacific plate boundary Nepal is on the Eurasian/Indio-Austrailian plate those parts are extremely tectonically lively and weak to earthquakes and volcanic interest. very likely to be hit by earthquakes and linked complications like tsunamis.
2016-11-29 07:02:28 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My recollection is that Hawaii is a hot spot in the Pacific Plate. Yellowstone is another hot spot.
Here is a link with plates and hot spots:
http://www.sparknotes.com/astronomy/earth/section3.rhtml
2006-11-19 09:39:00 · answer #3 · answered by Susan M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hawaii is in nearly the middle of the Pacific plate. It (& Hawaii) is moving northwestward, in the direction of the other, progressively smaller, Hawaiian islands.
2006-11-19 09:05:41 · answer #4 · answered by engineer01 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋