what is this chain?
It is a mostly undersea mountain range in the Pacific Ocean that reaches above sea level in Hawaii.
Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a mostly undersea mountain range in the Pacific Ocean that reaches above sea level in Hawaii.
when is the last time mauna kea erupted 6,000 to 4,000 years ago. who were the early settlers here? Ancient Hawaiians. what are a few of its geological features? It is the largest and youngest island of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain and it is the fourth oldest and fourth most active volcano. how old is this chain? The Emperor Seamounts is 81 million years.
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Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain [SEP] Introduction
The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a mostly undersea mountain range in the Pacific Ocean that reaches above sea level in Hawaii. It is composed of the Hawaiian ridge, consisting of the islands of the Hawaiian chain northwest to Kure Atoll, and the Emperor Seamounts: together they form a vast underwater mountain region of islands and intervening seamounts, atolls, shallows, banks and reefs along a line trending southeast to northwest beneath the northern Pacific Ocean. The seamount chain, containing over 80 identified undersea volcanoes, stretches about from the Aleutian Trench in the far northwest Pacific to the Loʻihi seamount, the youngest volcano in the chain, which lies about southeast of the Island of Hawaiʻi.