'Could say something about the Hawaiian hot spot, which does not apprear tectonically driven. Interesting....
Backtrack the Hawaiian hotspot on the earth's crust to where the impact might have been. Remember hotspots remain stationary in reference to the earth's crust while the plates move over them.
Re the Emperor Seamount chain, which abruptly trends more westerly about midway toward the Aleutians, where its earlier remnants are finally subducted, to be reassimilated back into the mantle.
What a world, eh?
13 posted on 12/13/2002 10:37:00 AM PST by onedoug