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Early Earth was Vigorously Convecting 24:25 - 25:45 (01:20) / 2.5 MB convection, "lava lake", Hawaii, "plate tectonics", "David Stevenson"
Introduction to Plate Dynamics 00:40 - 01:04 (00:24) / 0.5 MB introduction, "lava flow", Hawaii, crust, deformation, volcano
Seamounts 22:09 - 23:16 (01:07) / 0.8 MB "Tanya L. Atwater", topography, "sea floor", seamount, "volcanic cone", "hot spot", volcano, "lava flow", plate, Hawaii, island, Aleutians, "Pacific Plate"
Coral Atolls 23:16 - 24:37 (01:21) / 1.0 MB "Tanya L. Atwater", Hawaii, seamount, guyot, "sea floor", island, erosion, wave, plate, "hot spot", "mid-oceanic ridge", "coral reef", "coral atoll"
Loihi 24:37 - 25:29 (00:52) / 0.5 MB theory, Hawaii, "hot spot", "Pacific Plate", "mantle plume", island, volcano, "sea floor"
Hawaiian Hot Spot Hypothesis 03:46 - 05:20 (01:34) / 2.8 MB "Robert Tilling", volcano, plate, magma, "pillow lava", fissure, temperature, Hawaii, "divergent plate", "Pacific Plate", basalt, "lava flow", eruption, "oceanic hot spot"
Eruptions From Rift Zones 06:05 - 06:45 (00:40) / 1.0 MB volcano, eruption, crater, "shield volcano", Hawaii, fissure, "rift zone", gravity, stress, pressure, magma, "lava flow", "summit vent", Kilauea
Two Types of Lava 09:51 - 11:10 (01:19) / 3.4 MB viscosity, "lava flow", eruption, Hawaii, gas, pahoehoe, aa, "lava tube", temperature, "shield volcano", "composite volcano", vent
Hilo, Hawaii 06:54 - 07:23 (00:29) / 1.2 MB tsunami, Hilo, Hawaii, earthquake, wave, "Pacific Ocean", Alaska, "geologic hazard"
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