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The Pacific plate is an oceanic tectonic plate.how did a hot spot and the Pacific plate interact to for the hawaiian islands

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Hotspots are not actually tectonic plates. A hotspot is formed when magma pushes through a weak spot in the plate. Over millions of years, the hotspot released magma and ever so slowly moved to form the Hawaiian islands.
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Answer:

The Pacific plate is an oceanic tectonic plate.how did a hot spot and the Pacific plate interact to for the hawaiian islands

Step-by-step explanation:

Although most of the world's volcanoes came out of geological activity at the limits of the tectonic plates, the hot spot of Hawaii is far from these limits.

Those in Hawaii, is due to a sudden change in the movement of the Pacific plate. However, recent investigations of this irregularity led to the proposal of the movable hot-spot theory in 2003, which suggests that hot spots are mobile instead of fixed, and that the curve, which is 47 million years old, It was caused by a change in the movement of the hot spot instead of the movement of the plate.

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