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    28.75°W / 38.5; -28.75 (Azores hotspot) The Azores hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. The Azores is relatively young and is...
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    The Azores Plateau or Azores Platform is an oceanic plateau encompassing the Azores archipelago and the Azores Triple Junction in the North Atlantic Ocean...
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    continental rifting (62 Ma), Greenland. Azores hotspot (1) 37°54′N 26°00′W / 37.9°N 26.0°W / 37.9; -26.0 (Azores hotspot) Eurasian Plate, w= .5 az= 110° ±12°...
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    the Azores employs a large percentage of the population directly or indirectly in the service and tertiary sectors. The largest city of the Azores is Ponta...
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  • as Bouvet Island while others appear from hotspots such as the Azores which was created by the Azores hotspot. This list includes islands that are more...
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    Terceira Rift (category Geology of the Azores)
    rift located amidst the Azores islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It runs between the Azores Triple Junction to the west and the Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault...
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    buoyant upwelling in the deeper mantle, which some associate with an Azores hotspot. Most of the volcanic activity has occurred primarily along the Terceira...
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    Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores. With an area of 76 million km2 (29 million sq mi), it is the Earth's second...
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    have formed as a result of the North American Plate passing over the Azores hotspot. Scruncheon Seamount in the middle of the chain has given an isotopic...
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    50°12′N 6°42′E / 50.2°N 6.7°E / 50.2; 6.7 (Eifel hotspot) The Eifel hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in Western Germany. It is one of many recent volcanic...
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    Prunus lusitanica (category Flora of the Azores)
    western Mediterranean Basin, France, Spain, and Portugal, and Macaronesia, Azores, Canary Islands and Madeira. Prunus lusitanica is rare in the wild, found...
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    is they formed above a mantle plume associated with the Canary or Azores hotspots in the Atlantic Ocean, based on the existence of older seamounts to...
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    the Arabian plate is moving away from the African plate. The New England hotspot in the Atlantic Ocean has probably created a short line of mid- to late-Tertiary...
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    (110 nmi; 210 km) west of Portugal, between the Azores and the Strait of Gibraltar along the Azores–Gibraltar fault zone. It is about 60 kilometres (32 nmi;...
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    WorldAtlas. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2019. "The Nine Islands of the Azores". Azores. 20 November 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2024. Carracedo, Juan Carlos; Troll...
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    Great Meteor Seamount (category Hotspot volcanoes)
    the Seewarte Seamounts, rooted on a large terrace located south of the Azores Plateau. The crust underlying Great Meteor has an age of 85 million years...
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    Pico on Pico Island in the Azores. The archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores are scattered within the Atlantic Ocean: the Azores straddling the Mid-Atlantic...
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    beneath the transition zone with branches extending to the Azores, Canary and Cape Verde hotspots, and petrological, geochemical, and isotopic evidence which...
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    New England Seamounts (category Hotspot volcanoes)
    continued to spread, the hotspot eventually "travelled" further east, forming the Great Meteor Seamount south of the Azores, where it is located today...
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    spreading ridge, a process which has been suggested for other hotspots such as Réunion, Iceland, Azores and others as well. The Pacific-Farallon Ridge was located...
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    create an antipodal hotspot. A second impact-related model of hotspot and LIP formation has been suggested in which minor hotspot volcanism was generated...
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    visit in 2018. Tourist hotspots in Portugal are Lisbon, Porto, the Algarve, Madeira, Sintra, Óbidos, Fátima, Coimbra and Azores, but the Portuguese government...
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    Seewarte Seamounts (category Hotspot volcanoes)
    formed as a result of the African Plate traveling over the New England hotspot. The Seewarte Seamounts include: Closs Seamount Little Meteor Seamount...
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  • The Kerguelen Plateau is a large igneous province formed by a volcanic hotspot; however, it was associated with the breakup of Gondwana and was for a...
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    Portugal is located on the Mediterranean Basin, the third most diverse hotspot of flora in the world. Due to its geographical and climatic context - between...
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    is they formed above a mantle plume associated with the Canary or Azores hotspots in the Atlantic Ocean, based on the existence of older seamounts to...
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    is in South Africa's Tsitsikamma National Park. The rainforests of the Azores (also known as cloud forests, due to the constant cloud coverage caused...
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    perpendicular ridges: the Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault, the boundary between the Nubian and Eurasian plates, intersects the MAR at the Azores Triple Junction...
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    plateaus produced by large igneous provinces are often associated with hotspots, mantle plumes, and volcanic islands — such as Iceland, Hawaii, Cape Verde...
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    including South Africa, New Zealand, Japan, Easter Island, Australia, the Azores, Europe, Hawaii, and the continental United States. Argentine ants are significant...
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