[Rockhounds] Hawaiis Moving Hot Spot

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

The moving hotspot is written up in the January 2008 issue of Scientific
American.


William Dicks wrote:
> 
> Kitty (or anyone else for that matter......)
>     I have skimmed thru the link you provided for information on Lo'ihi
> but can't find reference to the moving hot spot.
> As an educator I'd like to have/read the article or any scientific
> data/findings reporting on the moving hot spot.
> This list has been a wealth of information in the past and I'm hopping
> you wont mind being slightly off topic (not a collecting topic).
> If you would rather contact me off list I'm at
> 
> dickswi at northville.k12.mi.us
> 
> Thank You in advance
> 
> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] The Hawaiian Hot Spot Is Also Moving
> 
> The new island is called Lo'ihi and you can find a lot of information
> about it by googling that word (you don't have to type the apostrophe
> to get results).  The following is a good site with pictures in a
> "virtual tour."
> 
> http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/loihi.html
> 
> Aloha, Kitty
> 
> Bill Dicks
> Teacher,
> Northville High School
> Board Member,
> Michigan Earth Science Teachers Association
> 
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