Wandering hot spots worry geologists"Hot spots" where plumes of molten magma break through the Earth's crust appear to be wandering across the planet - a discovery that undermines many of the accepted ideas about how the Earth's tectonic plates are moving... [A] new study by Robert Duncan of Oregon State University in Corvallis and his colleagues shows that the Hawaiian hot spot has probably shifted... "People suspected that hot spots were moving," says geologist Robert Butler of the University of Arizona in Tuscon. "But the one they all wanted to hang onto was the biggest, baddest hot spot of them all - the Hawaiian hot spot."
by Betsy Mason
How old is this article? What is this stupidity that “they all wanted to hang on to”. So far as I know, scientists have recognized the movement of the Hawaiian hot spot for quite a number of years. Another one is the island chain to the east of the Caribbean plate. There is currently an underwater volcano called Kicking Jenny, or something like that that is almost up to the surface.