reply to post by GenRadek
I dont know how the hawaii hot spot fits into the scheme of things, it could be the remains of and old impact hot spot that has yet to be
identified.
The oldest volcano in the chain is 82 million years old and is just about to be subducted into the aluetian trench. Who knows how many have been
already been subducted, or how old the hot spot really is. Since no part of the sea floor is more than 100 million or so years old, the really old
impact sites will have been reclaimed by the earth already.



