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Hot Spot Island Chain Formation (Teaching Animation)

Did you know that volcanoes can form at hotspots in the Earth’s crust? This teaching animation displays how seamount chains like the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain are formed as tectonic plates move over hotspots. 

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