Why do the Hawaiian Islands form a chain of volcanoes? O The mantle below flows

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Why do the Hawaiian Islands form a chain of volcanoes? O The mantle below flows slowly to the east, creating new volcanoes as it goes. O The Hawalian Islands are not part of a chain. They are over a stationary hotspot in the lithosphere O The crack in the lithosphere is progressively splitting eastward, permitting magma to rise along a line O The top of the basalt plume in the deep mantle is dragged eastward by moving ithosphere O The lithosphere carrying Hawai slowly moves over a hotspot feeding magma to the overlying volcano

Explanation / Answer

Last option is the answer i.e. the lithosphere carrying Hawaii slowly moves over a hotspot feeding magma to the overlying magma.

Reason- Hawaiian island chain is a intraplate volcanic erruption that feeded by mantle plume. We know that mantle plume is stationary. So as the plate moves over it it produces different islands.Hawaii being the youngest island.

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