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In geology, a hotspot is a location on the Earth's surface that has experienced active volcanism for a long period of time. J. Tuzo Wilson came up with the idea in 1963 that volcanic chains like the Hawaiian Islands result from the slow movement of a tectonic plate across a "fixed" hot spot deep beneath the surface of the planet. Originally thought to be caused by a narrow stream of hot mantle convecting up from the mantle-core boundary called a mantle plume 1, the latest geological evidence is pointing to upper-mantle convection as a cause 23. Geologists have identified some 40-50 such hotspots around the globe, with Hawaii, Réunion, Yellowstone, Galápagos, and Iceland overlying the most currently active.

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</div World map showing the locations of selected prominent hotspots.
  • Afar hotspot
  • Amsterdam hotspot
  • Ascension hotspot
  • Azores hotspot
  • Balleny hotspot
  • Bermuda hotspot
  • Bouvet hotspot
  • Bowie hotspot
  • Cameroon hotspot
  • Canary hotspot
  • Cape Verde hotspot
  • Caroline hotspot
  • Cobb hotspot
  • Comoros hotspot
  • Crozet hotspot
  • Darfur hotspot
  • Discovery hotspot
  • East Australia hotspot
  • Easter hotspot
  • Eifel hotspot
  • Fernando hotspot
  • Galápagos hotspot
  • Gough hotspot
  • Guadelupe hotspot
  • Hawaii hotspot
  • Heard hotspot
  • Hoggar hotspot
  • Iceland hotspot
  • Jan Mayen hotspot
  • Juan Fernandez hotspot
  • Kerguelen hotspot
  • Lord Howe hotspot
  • Louisvile hotspot
  • Macdonald hotspot
  • Marion hotspot
  • Marquesas hotspot
  • Meteor hotspot
  • New England hotspot
  • Pitcairn hotspot
  • Raton hotspot
  • Réunion hotspot
  • St Helena hotspot
  • St Paul hotspot
  • Samoa hotspot
  • San Felix hotspot
  • Shona hotspot
  • Society hotspot (Tahiti hotspot)
  • Socorro hotspot
  • Tasmanid hotspot
  • Tibesti hotspot
  • Trindade hotspot
  • Tristan hotspot
  • Vema hotspot
  • Yellowstone hotspot

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