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The Life Cycle of a Hawaiian Volcano
Compared to the 4.5 billion-year-old
Earth, The Hawaiian Islands are very
young.
 • Kaua`i emerged about 5 million years
   ago
 • The oldest island Kure, is
   approximately 30 million years old.
Deep
 Submarin
  e Stage
•An island
begins under
the ocean. Hot
lava pours out
of a crack, called
a “volcano”
•Lava builds a
mountain under
 the sea
                     Lo`ihi
Shallow Submarine Stage
Lava builds a dome island
There are no present examples
 of an island in the Shallow
 submarine stage
Lo`ihi will be in this stage
 thousands of years from now
Shield building Stage
•A caldera forms
at the top of the
dome
•A caldera is a
crater more
than 1 mile in
diameter
Landslide
Stage
•Landslides
carried away
up to a third
of the island
away
Cappin
g Stage
•Sometimes
the caldera is
covered by a
cap
 of lava.
•Cones form      Mauna Kea
on the sides
Erosion
stage
•The sea and
water wear
down the
island.
•Coral starts
to grow         Ko`olau Mountains, Oahu
Reef
growth
stage
•The sea is
lower, then
higher again.
•At higher levels
more coral grow.
                    Hanauma Bay, Oahu

•The island sinks
Rejuvenati
on stage
•The sea is lower
again
•Small cones
send out lava
•Reefs are made
•The islands
settles some
more
Atoll stage
•The island
settles
under the
sea
•Only reefs
              Kure Atoll
are left.
guyot stage
•A flat-topped
submerged
seamount
•Happens when
the coral dies
and the island
sinks beneath
the ocean
surface

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Volcanoes on stage 07

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  1. Most Hawaiian volcanoes go through 10 stages beginning with the deep submarine stage and ending with a guyot. Stream/water, wind and wave action plus subsidence (gradual sinking) on high islands will eventually erode all volcanic rock and the islands will become atolls. The geological age of the Hawaiian Islands increases in a northwesterly direction. The youngest volcano is the Lo`ihi Seamount and part of the island of Hawai`i, which is still forming, and the oldest is the Emperor Seamount, which is 75 million years old.
  2. The Hawaiian Islands are located on the Pacific plate. According to the hot spot theory, the shield volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands are formed as the Pacific plate moves over a stationary hot spot, located in the general area of the island of Hawai`i. Over thousands of years, volcanoes erupting over the hot spot accumulate enough mass to rise above sea level and become islands. As the plate moves to the northwest, new islands form over the hot spot. Secondary volcanic activity (rejuvenation) occurred on most of the islands when volcanoes were approximately 150 km (90 mi) away from the hot spot.
  3. Recent sonar “pictures” have revealed large deposits off shore of most of the high sea cliffs in the Hawaiian Island chain. These deposits are the result of great landslides that carried away up to a third of the above-sea-level mass of some of our shield volcanoes. Most of these slides probably occurred early in the final stages of the shield’s building and, in some cases, capping phase.
  4. The capping stage may occur when a volcano begins to move off the hot spot. At this time, less frequent and more explosive eruptions produce ash or cinder cones and viscous, slow-moving lava that builds up a steep-sided bumpy cap on the top of the volcano.
  5. Erosion is the gradual wearing away of earth by water, wind and ice. Over millions of years, streams carve valleys out of the slopes of shield volcanoes and gradually carry bits of rock to the sea.
  6. Rejuvenation (renewed volcanic activity) sometimes occurs after the bulk of the island is formed and the volcano has experienced considerable erosion. Cones produced during this secondary activity are similar to the cones built along rift zones during the shield building. Well known examples of rejuvenation include Diamond Head (Leahi Crater), and Hanauma Bay on O`ahu.