Tag: Hotspots

• Geology of the Galápagos platform.

  

  On the AT50-09 expedition, we will be mapping margins of the Galápagos Platform that have never been explored in detail. The Galápagos Islands are considered to be an archipelago, or group of islands, that comprises numerous volcanoes that formed as a result of “hotspot volcanism”. “Hotspots” occur in Earth’s mantle. Hotspots are places where magma…

  galapagosdeep2023

  19th March 2023

  Geology

  Hotspots, magma, submarine volcano