Samoa hotspot
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The Samoa hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located in the south Pacific Ocean. The hotspot model describes a hot upwelling plume of magma through the Earth's crust as an explanation of how volcanic islan
Mt Matavanu eruption on Savaiʻi island, 1905.
Arago hotspot
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Arago hotspot is a hotspot in the Pacific Ocean, presently located below the Arago seamount close to the island of Rurutu, French Polynesia.
Samoa hotspot
…mi) south of the axis of the Samoan hotspot track. This seamount has lavas with both a Paleogene ocean island basalt composition typical for either the Arago hotspot or Macdonald hotspot and much younger rejuvenated lavas similar to rejuvenated volcanism on Samoa. Combined with the data from Uo Mamae seamount, it…
The Arago hotspot is a component of the South Pacific Ocean Hotspot highway
Hotspot provinces in the Pacific Ocean; Arago belongs to the "Macdonald" province
Rurutu
Rimatara