But it's amazing what a little common sense, applied to some basic information, can accomplish. It was the awareness of the hotspot forming the Hawaiian Islands that led me this conclusion, plus observation of lava lamps, lol.
I am not familiar with the term diapur, but I am going to investigate this, particularly the information about the area south of the Hawaiian chain.
Thanks.
Ah yes, HAWAII : spent about 5 winters in a row there as my mother’s companion. For about 20 years(winters)she led a singing group on waikiki beach, sort of an aloha-welcome wagon thing. Ukes, leis, hawaiian dancing on the sun-splashed shore. It REALLY pays off in FEBRUARY when you know back home they are freezing their bippies off.
Yes, unique place and people come from all over the world to be there. I did get to visit the observatory on mauna kea one year. It is in fact the largest mountain on the earth as the base starts 2 miles on the ocean floor, peak at 13,800’. In addition to astronomy they do geotechnical work there as well. They send me periodic announcements.
The activity at the kiluaea crater, on the south shore of the big island, has been tapering off in recent years; the hotspot/diapur lava flow is shifting more to the new volcano to the south. Wait a million years and you’ll see it break thru the ocean’s surface.
Which just goes to show that the earth is doing its dynamic, organic thing; volcanism occurs on venus, mars, jupiter’s moon Io, elsewhere; and those planets never heard of algore and his “we’re the center of the universe” nonsense. Volcanos will continue erupting, earthquakes will continue a-shaking wheather you pray to the earth as a god or see it as fraternal twin to venus that got a lot of lucky breaks, for us.
Funny, even though LAND is limited in HI, the natives wouldn’t even THINK of grinding up fresh lava flow-fields, to make fertile fields, that’s sacred pele’s breath. Hey, you can’t even WALK on that ****, it’s like broken glass. It would take you an HOUR to get 100’ on it. So, folks like that are algore’s natural prey....