Hawaiian Islands and Ring of Fire?

Question

How does the formation of the Hawaiian Island chain differ from island chains along the Ring of Fire?

Answer 1

Volcanoes on the ring of fire are caused because they are on plate boundaries where one plate slides beneath another and the friction melts the rock into magma which then melts its way to the surface via fractures until it erupts as a volcano.

Hawaii is a rare phenomena of a hot spot. Here a volcanic plume finds or melts its way through the plate until it erupts as a volcano. Over time as the plate moves it closes the opening and the plume melts its way through again to make another volcano. In this way the island chain is formed.

Answer 2

The ring of fire borders the Pacific plates' boundries with other tectonic plates. The volcanoes that exist in the ring of fire are caused from subduction of one plate under another. The Hawaiian islands were formed from what is called a hot spot. There is a convection current under the islands that caused the crust to thin so much that magma broke through. As the pacific plate has moved the hot spot has remained still. Thats why the islands in the northwest part of the chain are older, and one day there will be islands southeast of the big island.

Answer 3

Ring Of Fire Islands

Answer 4

THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS WERE AND ARE BEING FORMED BY A HOT SPOT OR THIN SPOT IN THE EARTHS CRUST ALLOWING FOR THE UPWELLING OF MAGMA. IT IS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE ACTIVE VOLCANOES OF THE RING OF FIRE JUST IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION. PUT HAWAII ON THE PACIFIC RIM AND IT WOULD FIT RIGHT IN.

Answer 5

It was made over a seiries of hot spots with the ring of fire volcanoes where there are a bunch of them and just heat from the mantle melting rocks