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A hot spot creates volcanoes in an ________ chain.​

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Hotspots Within Oceans

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As the tectonic plates move above a hotspot, they form a chain of volcanoes. The islands of Hawaii formed over a hotspot in the middle of the Pacific plate. The volcanoes are massive shield volcanoes that together create the islands.

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