Hawaiʻi: volcanic islands on a moving plate

Exploration · Quaternary

Hawaiʻi: volcanic islands on a moving plate

Formation process · present-day map

Imagined volcanic-island growth · not a measured reconstruction of a particular island or eruption.

The main islands generally become younger toward the southeast. Older islands erode and subside, although some volcanoes erupt again. Compare Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island on the present-day map.