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The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a mostly undersea mountain range in the Pacific Ocean that reaches above sea level in Hawaii.It is composed of the Hawaiian ridge, consisting of the islands of the Hawaiian chain northwest to Kure Atoll, and the Emperor Seamounts: together they form a vast underwater mountain region of islands and intervening seamounts, atolls, shallows, banks and reefs ...
The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. The two straight sections, the Emperor and Hawaiian strands, are separated by a large L-shaped bend at the Northwestern Hawaiian islands. Map of the youngest Hawaiian Islands showing progression in selected erupted lava ages along the island chain (Ma = million years) Map of the Hawaiian Islands and some ...
Enlargeable, detailed map of Midway Atoll. Midway Atoll is part of a chain of volcanic islands, atolls, and seamounts extending from the Island of Hawaii up to the tip of the Aleutian Islands and known as the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, between Pearl and Hermes Atoll and Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Map based on Eakins, Robinson, Kanamatsu, Naka, Smith, Takahashi, & Clague (2003) ... List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain; Metadata.
When scientists investigated a series of earthquakes off Hawaii in 1970, they discovered that Kamaʻehuakanaloa was an active member of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. Three-dimensional rendering of the seamount. Kamaʻehuakanaloa is built on the seafloor with a slope of about five degrees.
The chain is split into two subsections across a break, separating the older Emperor Seamount Chain from the younger Hawaiian Ridge; the V-shaped bend of the chain is easily noticeable on maps. [1] The volcanoes are progressively younger to the southeast; the oldest dated volcano, located at the northern end, is 81 million years old.
Nihoa is part of the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain of volcanic islands, atolls, and seamounts starting from the island of Hawaiʻi in the southeast to the Aleutian Islands in the northwest. It is the youngest of ten islands in the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), having formed 7.2 million years ago; the oldest, Kure Atoll ...
The Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain — a series of volcanoes and seamounts extending across the Pacific Ocean in Oceania.; The chain has been produced by the southwards movement of the ocean crust over the Hawaiʻi hotspot, from the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era through the present−day Holocene epoch of the Cenozoic Era