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Chapter 20, Problem 8P
From Hawai’i to the bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor chain is about 4000 km. Use the speed of Pacific plate motion given in Problem 7 to estimate how long ago the direction of plate motion changed. (Note: It may not be a coincidence that the San Andreas fault became active in what is now Southern California at about the same time.)
7. The Hawaiian-Emperor chain of undersea volcanoes is about 7500 km long, and the Pacific plate is moving 9.2 cm a year. How old is the oldest detectable volcano in the chain? What has happened to older volcanoes in the chain?
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