Hotspots

For an introductory college-level earth sciences class: a review of hotspots, including how they form and how we use the tracks of extinct volcanoes they leave behind as evidence to better understand the processes underlying plate tectonics.
**This video comes at the start of the semester. For a full playlist, refer to the Oceanography or Geology playlists on the Earth Rocks! RUclips Channel.
Content within this video is based on information available in any standard introductory college oceanography or geology textbook, such as Essentials of Oceanography -- Trujillo and Thurman -- OR Essentials of Geology -- Tarbuck and Lutgens -- Pearson Publishing.
Part of a 7-part Plate Tectonics video series:
Part 1: Earth Layers & Isostasy
Part 2: Plate Tectonics Basics
Part 3: Plate Tectonics Global Impacts
Part 4: Plate Tectonics and California Geology
Part 5: Hotspots
Part 6: Paleomagnetism
Part 7: Hydrothermal Vents
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[@leechurchill1965]

The Himalayas: that's one big ass accretion.

[@Lagunabeachbikini]

Him-a-liar.

[@umayrazam]

Where can I have access to all the parts of the Series? any Links for that would help me

[@EarthRocks]

The end of the video has a link to the next one in the series. To get direct access to all of them, you can find them towards the top of the Oceanography or Geology playlists on my RUclips channel. Just click on the channel logo: ruclips.net/channel/UCBEwiHo718rNAekZrqjjDjQ
Click on Playlists, and you'll find them all!

[@pukulu]

Were the Galapagos hotspot and its islands left off?

[@EarthRocks]

The world map I used is from Morgan, Reston, and Ranero 2004 and is showing only hotspots with identified associated flood basalt provinces. The Galapagos hotspot has a few contenders for its associated flood basalt province, but none firmly identified yet. In my next update to this video, I will include a section on the Galapagos Hotspot! Thanks. :)

[@pukulu]

thanks very much!

[@wayneandrews9298]

Hola , could you do one on the Canarian hotspots , if your still posting now ..

[@andrewlane7000]

Is the Craters of the Moon, currently, part of the Yellowstone hotspot?

[@EarthRocks]

Craters of the Moon is part of the Basin and Range extension. There are a number of eruptive centers throughout the Basin and Range produced through spreading of the crust. Not a hotspot. :)

[@andrewlane7000]

Thanks Katryn, hope things are going well with you .......

[@deepanhoney1225]

Whether sea floor destroyed at trench is that true means how it will be scraped off and attached to edge of the continent as terrace..help

[@EarthRocks]

Watch video on accretion at subduction zones. ruclips.net/video/2uh8W4vGLQ0/видео.html

[@Mekratrig]

Are the Columbia River Flood basalts related to the Washington Channeled Scablands which were formed by gigantic floods during the last ice age when ice dams gave way and the entire contents of prehistoric Lake Missoula emptied.
Also, does not the track of the Yellowstone hot spot make a right angel to the northwest, similar to the Hawaiian hot spot track.

[@EarthRocks]

The Columbia River Flood basalts are the rocks that were scoured away to create deep channels during the Lake Missoula flood. But the basalts were not formed by the flood. They were already there.
And yes, I agree, the yellowstone hotspot track is not perfectly straight!

[@todaywithjesimielmillar1556]

Great Video! (Jesimiel Millar Fernåndez) 1M1K612

[@mistysowards7365]

India did not cause change of motion of pacific plate... Was creation or maturation of major subduction zones in western Pacific and izu bonan along with Kula plate destruction or completion of subduction and rapid expansion of Japan subduction zone.