Something Beneath Hawaii Is Getting Hotter — and Scientists Didn’t Expect It
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New research reveals Hawaii's hotspot warmed over 47 million years, shaping giant volcanoes like Pūhāhonu.
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Hawaii’s volcanic chain records millions of years of activity deep inside Earth, but its changing size has remained difficult to explain. Familiar theories could account for only part of the evidence.
A new study reconstructs the temperature history of the underlying hotspot and reaches an unexpected conclusion. The findings concern geological change over immense timescales—not a sudden warning of an approaching eruption.