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Contact: Martha Downs
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Brown University
Caption: The trail of underwater mountains created as the tectonic plate moved across the Hawaii hotspot over millions of years, known as the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, or the Emperor Seamounts.
Credit: USGS
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