The Rarotonga hotspot is in the Pacific Ocean, between the points 24 and 35 in this map.
The Rarotonga hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the southern Pacific Ocean. The hotspot is claimed to be responsible for the formation of Rarotonga and some volcanics of Aitutaki but an alternative explanation for these islands most recent volcanics has not been ruled out.[1] Recently alternatives to hotspot activity have been offered for several other intra-plate volcanoes that may have been associated with the Rarotonga hotspot hypothesis.[2][3]
In addition to these volcanoes in the Cook Islands, the composition of volcanic rocks in Samoa and in the Lau Basin may have been influenced by the Rarotonga hotspot, and some atolls and seamounts in the Marshall Islands may have formed on the hotspot as well.
^Jackson et al. 2020, p. 11.
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The Rarotongahotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the southern Pacific Ocean. The hotspot is claimed to be responsible for the formation of Rarotonga and...
being formed by the Macdonald hotspot, its age is too young, and its formation is attributed to a short-lived Rarotongahotspot, or to rejuvenated volcanism...
more is understood. Rarotonga erupted between 1·697 to 1·157 million years ago and so can not be assigned to say the Macdonald hotspot which went through...
chains, including the previously mentioned hotspots as well as the Arago hotspot, Marquesas Islands and Rarotonga. Beneath the Superswell, a region of upwelling...
the eruptives from the Hawaii hotspot. Louisville Ridge Christmas Island Seamount Province Arago hotspotRarotongahotspot Hollister Ridge Osbourn Seamount...
The Sheraton Resort Rarotonga or Vaimaanga Hotel is an incomplete derelict hotel in Vaimaanga on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. Intended to be the first...
where the postulated tracks of the Samoa, Macdonald, Rurutu, and Rarotongahotspots all cross paths with one another. While the concept has stood the...
Arago hotspot. Presently, Arago and the Macdonald hotspot are the two active hotspots of the Austral Islands, but a hotspot that formed Rarotonga may also...
hotspot were estimated to be from 0.6 and 0.7 Ma. The hotspot has four islands that have formed since the hotspot's origin. Arago hotspotRarotonga hotspot...
by the same hotspot, but also intersect with older seamounts along the hotspot highway left by the Macdonald, Rurutu, and Rarotongahotspots and feature...
to subducted oceanic crust being sampled by the plume. Arago hotspotRarotongahotspot Tarava Seamounts Neall, V.E.; Trewick, S.A. (2008). "The age and...
seamounts, with the Society hotspot, Rurutu hotspot, Rarotongahotspot and the Macdonald hotspot being candidate hotspots responsible for the development...
associations with the Arago hotspot and/or the Rarotongahotspot and make a previously suggested association with the Samoa hotspot less likely. Given their...
has been explained by a hotspot that would now be located close to the Rarotongahotspot, Samoa hotspot and Society hotspot were it still active. Compositionally...
and consequent changes in the lithospheric stress field. Arago hotspotRarotongahotspot Neall, V.E.; Trewick, S.A. (2008). "The age and origin of the...
trachybasaltic composition and geochemically resemble these erupted by the Rarotongahotspot. Clays with Cenomanian-age radiolarian fossils cover the entire lower...
was probably a shield volcano at first; the Macdonald, Rarotonga, Rurutu and Society hotspots may have been involved in its formation. After volcanic...
Magellan Seamounts to be a product of the same hotspot. The Rarotongahotspot, Samoa hotspot and Society hotspot appear to coincide with the reconstructed...
genomic model presents a migration pathway from Samoa to the Cook Islands (Rarotonga), then to the Society Islands (Tōtaiete mā) in the 11th century AD, the...
have been formed by a centre of upwelling magma, called the Marquesas hotspot. The islands in the group fall naturally into two geographical divisions...
Guyot formed about 95 million years ago, presumably as a consequence of hotspot volcanism. The volcanic island became an atoll with active reefs that eventually...
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