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∙ 10y agoHawaii is situated broadly in the center of the Pacific plate and touches no other plates. It has volcanoes because it sits on a particularly thin part of that plate which allows for magma from below the plate to rise and come to the surface.
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∙ 15y agoThe Hawaiian Islands are on the Pacific Plate
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∙ 9y agoHawaii sits on the Pacific Plate.
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What tectonic plate does California sit on?
California is located on the plate boundaries for the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate.
What tectonic plates surround hawaii and the kohala volcanoe?
The type of plate boundaries surround Hawaii and The Kohala volcanoe would be the convergent boundaries.
What are the volcanoes of Hawaii and other places far from tectonic plate boundaries known as?
They are known as hot spots.
What tectonic plate is in the continent of Africa on?
The tectonic plate is called the African Plate.
Are plate tectonic plate boundaries?
No, plate boundaries is part of the explanation of the Plate Tectonic theory:)
Hawaii is located near the middle of which tectonic plate?
Pacific Plate
Hawii sits on what tectonic plate?
Hawaii is located on the pacific oceanic plate.
What tectonic plate does California sit on?
California is located on the plate boundaries for the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate.
Are their any tectonic plates under Lake Erie?
Everything on the surface of the earth is on a tectonic plate. All the Great Lakes and in fact all of the U.S. and Canada except for Hawaii and part of California are on the same tectonic plate: the North American Plate.
Why are there no earthquakes in Rhode Island?
Rhode island doesn't sit upon a tectonic plate
What tectonic plates surround hawaii and the kohala volcanoe?
The type of plate boundaries surround Hawaii and The Kohala volcanoe would be the convergent boundaries.
What volcanoes of Hawaii and other places far from tectonic plate boundaries are known as?
They are known as hot spots.
What are the volcanoes of Hawaii and other places far from tectonic plate boundaries known as?
They are known as hot spots.
What tectonic plates does the eyjafjallajokull sit on?
Eyjafjallajökull is near the boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate and is also on a hot spot.
What tectonic plate is Russia on?
huh? what is a tectonic plate?
What is the difference between plate tectonic and tectonic plate?
Plate Tectonics is the process by by which the earth's tectonic plates move.
What tectonic plate is in the continent of Africa on?
The tectonic plate is called the African Plate.
