• Thumbnail for Tristan hotspot
    The Tristan hotspot is a volcanic hotspot which is responsible for the volcanic activity which forms the volcanoes in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It...
    9 KB (921 words) - 17:05, 1 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hotspot (geology)
    chain (Hawaii hotspot) Louisville Ridge (Louisville hotspot) Walvis Ridge (Gough and Tristan hotspot) Kodiak–Bowie Seamount chain (Bowie hotspot) Cobb–Eickelberg...
    33 KB (3,948 words) - 16:08, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tristan da Cunha
    Tristan da Cunha (/ˌtrɪstən də ˈkuːn(j)ə/), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote...
    150 KB (14,285 words) - 18:50, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Walvis Ridge
    active hotspot. It is also considered one of the most important hotspot tracks because the Tristan Hotspot is one of few primary or deep mantle hotspots. Apart...
    14 KB (1,566 words) - 01:29, 15 August 2023
  • Tristan hotspot, a volcanic hotspot which is responsible for the volcanic activity which forms the volcanoes in the southern Atlantic Ocean Tristan,...
    2 KB (313 words) - 18:15, 31 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Large igneous province
    create an antipodal hotspot. A second impact-related model of hotspot and LIP formation has been suggested in which minor hotspot volcanism was generated...
    43 KB (4,620 words) - 06:22, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atlantic Ocean
    magmatism of the Paraná–Etendeka Large Igneous Province produced by the Tristan hotspot resulted in an estimated volume of 1.5×106 to 2.0×106 km3 (3.6×105...
    116 KB (12,504 words) - 10:04, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of largest volcanic eruptions
    "Discovery of two new super-eruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot track (USA): Is the Yellowstone hotspot waning?". Geology. 48 (9): 934–938. Bibcode:2020Geo...
    61 KB (3,692 words) - 12:50, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geography of Tristan da Cunha
    prominent peak. Tristan da Cunha is thought to have been formed by a long-lived centre of upwelling magma called the Tristan hotspot. The climate is marine...
    6 KB (787 words) - 20:35, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vema Seamount
    Vema Seamount (redirect from Vema hotspot)
    another theory considers the Vema hotspot is a consequence of the Tristan hotspot shedding a secondary diapir. The hotspot origin of the Vema Seamount is...
    33 KB (3,447 words) - 18:22, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Potato Patches
    Potato Patches (category Tristan da Cunha)
    places around the island. Tristan hotspot Sandy Point, Tristan da Cunha List of towns in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Note: uninhabited...
    5 KB (407 words) - 02:39, 5 February 2024
  • "Tristan set" after the island of Tristan da Cunha (the Tristan hotspot), one of the principal inferred hotspots of the set. Within a single hotspot set...
    15 KB (2,076 words) - 13:21, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paraná and Etendeka traps
    the origin of the Gough and Tristan da Cunha Islands as well, as they are connected by the Walvis Ridge (Gough/Tristan hotspot). The seamounts of the Rio...
    20 KB (2,052 words) - 17:16, 25 April 2024
  • constitute the Discovery hotspot. Deeper in the mantle, the Discovery hotspot appears to connect with the Shona and Tristan hotspots to a single plume, which...
    27 KB (3,029 words) - 14:22, 4 April 2024
  • Islands. it is speculated[according to whom?] that the present day Iceland hotspot originated as a mantle plume on the Alpha Ridge (Arctic Ocean) ca. 130–120 Ma...
    36 KB (3,225 words) - 12:45, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Noronha hotspot
    mantle plume is actually the remnant of the plume associated with the Tristan hotspot. Edge-driven convection may be occurring at the margin of Brazil. This...
    17 KB (2,013 words) - 13:26, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mantle plume
    reaching shallow depths, a plume is often invoked as the cause of volcanic hotspots, such as Hawaii or Iceland, and large igneous provinces such as the Deccan...
    49 KB (6,056 words) - 07:46, 7 July 2024
  • have been found underlying the Santos Basin. The Tristan da Cunha hotspot, known as the Tristan hotspot, is considered the driver behind the formation of...
    18 KB (1,524 words) - 18:59, 7 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for St. Helena hotspot
    The St. Helena hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is responsible for the island of St. Helena and the St. Helena...
    1 KB (74 words) - 20:04, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for British Overseas Territories
    Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, there is an administrator in each of the two distant parts of the territory, namely Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha....
    111 KB (8,814 words) - 02:40, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geography of Saint Helena
    Geography of Saint Helena (category Geography of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
    territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Ascension Island and the island group of Tristan da Cunha. The climate of Saint Helena...
    6 KB (796 words) - 12:13, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Santos Basin
    have been found underlying the Santos Basin. The Tristan da Cunha hotspot, known as the Tristan hotspot, is considered the driver behind the formation of...
    53 KB (4,136 words) - 19:11, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jordan Bardella
    difficulties he had to face growing up in France's poorest department, a social hotspot with the highest proportion of immigrants. Bardella received a high school...
    55 KB (4,221 words) - 13:19, 15 July 2024
  • Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, consisting of the island of Saint Helena, Ascension...
    33 KB (3,403 words) - 09:17, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ascension Island
    Ascension Island (category Islands of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
    part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, of which the main island, Saint Helena, is around 800 miles (1...
    98 KB (9,703 words) - 07:29, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geology of Cape Verde
    2 mi) above the rest of the seafloor. Cape Verde has been identified as a hotspot and the majority of geoscientists have argued that the archipelago is underlain...
    10 KB (1,102 words) - 09:07, 14 July 2024
  • 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...
    20 KB (1,259 words) - 22:27, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rio Grande Rise
    Namibia. This event is linked to the Tristan-Gough hotspot, now located near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, close to Tristan da Cunha and the Gough Islands. During...
    9 KB (1,009 words) - 08:21, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Île Amsterdam
    hot spot.: 180  This is either the Kerguelen hotspot or a potentially separate Amsterdam-Saint Paul hotspot but resolution of this issue is complicated...
    31 KB (2,971 words) - 00:39, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geography of Easter Island
    Gómez, 415 km (258 mi) to the east, is closer but is uninhabited. The Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the southern Atlantic competes for the title of...
    34 KB (3,779 words) - 20:21, 12 June 2024