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Three Seamount Chains
 
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Here are three underwater  seamounts;  the Hawaiian Island- Emperor  Seamount chain, the Tuamotu  Archipelago-Line  Island  chain  and   the Austral,  Gilbert  and  Marshall   islands   chain.  All  three  chains  are  approximately parallel and could  all  have  been formed by the same motion of the  Pacific  plate  over three fixed hot spots.

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