The state of Hawaii is made of eight large islands and over a hundred smaller islands. The island of Hawaii is the most southeastern of the eight largest islands and is also closest to the seafloor spreading center from which the Pacific plate originates, about 5,600 km farther to the southeast. Assuming equal sedimentation rates for the entire region, what should be the location of the thickest sediment layer, and thus the area with the greatest diversity of fossils above the oceanic crust?

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Noemi Kramer

Geography

11 August, 01:30

The state of Hawaii is made of eight large islands and over a hundred smaller islands. The island of Hawaii is the most southeastern of the eight largest islands and is also closest to the seafloor spreading center from which the Pacific plate originates, about 5,600 km farther to the southeast. Assuming equal sedimentation rates for the entire region, what should be the location of the thickest sediment layer, and thus the area with the greatest diversity of fossils above the oceanic crust?

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Antony Mcbride · Answer 1

On assuming that area has equal sedimentation, location of the entire region has to below the level of the 500 meters this layer is made of basaltic lava.

Explanation:

As the eight Hawaiian islands are made of volcanic there are hundreds of smaller mounds of greater heights spread over the seafloor centered from the pacific plate origins. Fossils of corals may have been found near the floors of these plates and sedimentary deposits found along the shallower seabeds. close to the shores of the continental shelves. Marine life of paleozoic times might have been formed due to the Cambrian explosion. When the volcanic arcs and nouns have a gown on the ocean floor the crust has expanded and remained constant over the geologic time.