East Australian hotspot track

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The East Australian hotspot track is a chain of volcanic features along Australia’s east coast formed by the movement of the Australian Plate over a long-lived mantle hotspot.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
East Australian hotspot track canonical 3
Cosgrove hotspot track 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf hotspot track
volcanic province
cause age-progressive volcanism
country Australia
evidenceFor long-lived mantle hotspot activity
relative motion of Australian Plate over mantle
extendsInto Coral Sea
Tasman Sea
formationMechanism movement of the Australian Plate over a mantle hotspot
geologicalAge Cenozoic
hasPart continental volcanoes
submarine volcanoes
volcanic seamounts
heatSource mantle hotspot
lithosphereSetting continental lithosphere
oceanic lithosphere
locatedOn east coast of Australia
olderTowards south
partOf Southwest Pacific intraplate volcanic systems
relatedTo Cosgrove hotspot track
Lord Howe Seamount Chain
Tasmantid Seamount Chain
researchField mantle dynamics
plate tectonics
studiedBy geologists
geophysicists
tectonicPlate Australian Plate
trend generally north–south
volcanismType intraplate volcanism
youngerTowards north

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tweed Volcano partOf East Australian hotspot track
Lord Howe Seamount Chain relatedTo East Australian hotspot track
East Australian hotspot track relatedTo Cosgrove hotspot track
linked to: East Australian hotspot track
Newer Volcanics Province associatedWith East Australian hotspot track