Will volcanos destroy the Hawaiian Islands or will the islands sink?
April 25th, 2010 | 
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Will volcanos destroy the Hawaiian Islands or will the islands sink?
If so, how?
First, islands *never* "sink." They can be eroded into coral atolls and guyots, but they do not sink.
Now, volcanoes? They both create and destroy. Right this second, Kilauea is creating land off the eastern side of the Big Island. Also right this moment, the Loihi Seamount is being created off of its southeast side, and in hundreds or thousands of years will be our 50th state’s newest tourist spot.
However, they can erupt explosively, even in Hawaii. Particularly the five volcanoes of the Big Island, which are the only active volcanoes in the chain. As long as pressure can build, they can blow, and blow large chunks, if things built up enough.
This is true for all volcanoes, though some are more likely than others. Stromboli, Kilauea, the fissures of Iceland… probably won’t blow. But the volcanoes of Indonesia, the Philippines, the Andes and Cascades… they could all blow themselves apart.
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The islands are the tops of volcanoes so without them they wouldn’t exist.
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First, islands *never* "sink." They can be eroded into coral atolls and guyots, but they do not sink.
Now, volcanoes? They both create and destroy. Right this second, Kilauea is creating land off the eastern side of the Big Island. Also right this moment, the Loihi Seamount is being created off of its southeast side, and in hundreds or thousands of years will be our 50th state’s newest tourist spot.
However, they can erupt explosively, even in Hawaii. Particularly the five volcanoes of the Big Island, which are the only active volcanoes in the chain. As long as pressure can build, they can blow, and blow large chunks, if things built up enough.
This is true for all volcanoes, though some are more likely than others. Stromboli, Kilauea, the fissures of Iceland… probably won’t blow. But the volcanoes of Indonesia, the Philippines, the Andes and Cascades… they could all blow themselves apart.
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Geologist
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/text.html
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/loihi/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_Hawaiian_volcanoes
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:rZc7IC772XcJ:juliethehood.com/uploads/Geology_of_the_Hawaiian_Islands.doc+hawaiian+islands+major+eruption+destroy&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://www.pdc.org/iweb/volcano_history.jsp
Volcanos createf the hawaihan islands so that wil n0t destroy them. the islands will most likely sink/flood because of global warming cousing arctic ice to melt into the ocean
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No, neither. The Hawaiian Islands were made by "hot-spot" volcanoes. These types of volcanoes burst through the thin crust of the Earth. They made pillow of lava after pillow of lava on the ocean floor. One burst through another, and they quickly cooled. Again this happened, and by the time they reached the surface, the build up of the lava had built a mountain. Then, there, in the surface of the water, was a small point of earth. The lava came up through this spot, and therefore the Islands will not destroy or sink them, but rather keep building!
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My common knowledge! (I am eleven years old, if you are wondering!)
I don’t see how any islands can sink or be destroyed, least of all by volcanoes!
Firstly, you must understand that the existence of volcanoes on the Hawaiian Islands can best be explained by the "hotspot" theory. A hotspot is assumed to be a plume of magma underneath the earth’s crust. They do not lie on any specific plate boundaries. Anyway, when there is a gap in the earth’s crust, magma from the hotspots rise up and form volcanoes. The hotspots are fixed, so when the plates continually move, the volcanoes formed on the surface of the earth go extinct as well since there is essentially no more "fire" helping to fuel them. So if this is what you mean by destroyed, then yes, the volcanoes are sort of destroyed without the hotspots.
And islands don’t sink. They are made of hardened and cooled lava which comes from the asthenosphere, the upper layer of magma beneath the earth’s crust. So unless they are ripped apart by divergent forces, I don’t really think they can sink…
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Stuff I learnt in school. (: