The Jan Mayen hotspot is a proposed volcanic hotspot responsible for the volcanic activity that has formed the island of Jan Mayen in the northern Atlantic Ocean.[1]
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The JanMayenhotspot is a proposed volcanic hotspot responsible for the volcanic activity that has formed the island of JanMayen in the northern Atlantic...
third lake is called Ullerenglaguna (Ullereng Lagoon). JanMayen was formed by the JanMayenhotspot and is defined by geologists as a microcontinent. Although...
the JanMayen Fracture Zone. The volcanic island of JanMayen only formed in the Pleistocene, possibly related to a hotspot, known as the JanMayen hotspot...
the JanMayen Fracture Zone. The relatively thin crust and short lifespan of the Aegir Ridge is anomalous given its proximity to the Iceland hotspot. Mantle...
Gilbert Seamount – Continental fragment seamount west of New Zealand JanMayen Microcontinent – Atlantic fragment of continental crust Madagascar – Island...
The Iceland hotspot is a hotspot which is partly responsible for the high volcanic activity which has formed the Iceland Plateau and the island of Iceland...
island, and JanMayen. Both islands are in the Atlantic Ocean. A third type of volcanic oceanic island is formed over volcanic hotspots. A hotspot is more...
weakness. The seamount was at first proposed to have originated over a JanMayenhotspot. An origin at a mantle plume has been considered to be unlikely, even...
the Eurasian plate and the North American plate. It also lies above a hotspot, the Iceland plume. The plume is believed to have caused the formation...
similar to those found on and around Kerguelen in the Indian Ocean and JanMayen in the Arctic Ocean. The existence of such microcontinents is speculative...
as Bouvet Island while others appear from hotspots such as the Azores which was created by the Azores hotspot. This list includes islands that are more...
section of Zealandia (Lord Howe Rise) might have slid over a stationary hotspot, forming the Lord Howe Seamount Chain. It has been suggested that Zealandia...
America. Its range includes Greenland, Iceland, Fennoscandia, Svalbard, JanMayen (where it was hunted to extinction) and other islands in the Barents Sea...
buoyant upwelling in the deeper mantle, which some associate with an Azores hotspot. Most of the volcanic activity has occurred primarily along the Terceira...
Steineberg and Mäuseberg near Daun, the Hochsimmer and Scheidkopf near Mayen; the Eickelslay and Absberg in the southeast; and the Krautscheid and Hohe...
closest bodies of land in Europe are the Faroe Islands (420 km; 225 nmi); JanMayen Island (570 km; 310 nmi); Shetland and the Outer Hebrides, both about...
reaching shallow depths, a plume is often invoked as the cause of volcanic hotspots, such as Hawaii or Iceland, and large igneous provinces such as the Deccan...
from 13th to early 20th centuries) and Malta. The Norwegian islands of JanMayen and Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean are usually associated with Europe. South...
The Kola Alkaline Province is commonly presumed to represent an igneous hotspot created by a mantle plume. Carbonatites in Finland have wide range in ages...
Territories Nunavik Nunavut Yukon Greenland Grímsey Bear Island Finnmark JanMayen Svalbard Arkhangelsk Oblast Big Diomede (due to US Government definition...
on its continental shelf extension, along Mohns and Knipovich ridges JanMayen and Svalbard in the North Atlantic . Norway’s Institute of Marine Research...
Ferrogabbro dated at 77 Ma has been intruded. Also at 66 Ma the Canary hotspot mantle plume passed by and caused alkaline magma to intrude. Where there...
of the Philippines. December 4, 2020. Retrieved July 5, 2023. Jaymalin, Mayen (September 11, 2023). "Comelec sets plebiscite for Bulacan city". The Philippine...
on JanMayen island Bouvet Island – Uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island Bowie Seamount – Submarine volcano in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Jan Mayen...
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