Remote island archipelagos offer superb opportunities to study the evolution of community
assembly because of their relatively young and simple communities where speciation …

The islands of French Polynesia cover an area the size of Europe, though total land area is
smaller than Rhode Island. Each hot spot archipelago (Societies, Marquesas, Australs) is …

Using the geometry and ages from 12 Pacific seamount chains, we have determined two
new absolute plate motion models that now extend our self‐consistent and high‐resolution …

Abstract A 4.3 m‐long peat sequence from the shore of Lake Tiriara, Mangaia, Cook Islands,
was analyzed using an ITRAX core scanner equipped with a magnetic susceptibility meter …

Mantle plumes upwelling beneath moving tectonic plates generate age-progressive chains
of volcanos (hotspot chains) used to reconstruct plate motion. However, these hotspots …

The geochemistry of oceanic intraplate (primarily oceanic island and seamount) lavas can
provide essential information on the composition and evolution of their mantle source and …

Current Pacific absolute plate motion (APM) models include two major, long-lived hotspot
tracks: the∼ 80 Ma Hawaii–Emperor and∼ 79 Ma Louisville seamount tracks. Prior to∼ 50 …

Many volcano chains in the Pacific do not follow the most fundamental predictions of hot
spot theory in terms of geographic age progressions. One possible explanation for non–hot …

Marine inundation hazards in French Polynesia are various and unevenly distributed in the
territory; they are strongly related to the physiography (topography, bathymetry, coral reef …

The South Pacific region is characterized by a broadly elevated seafloor known as the South
Pacific superswell. This region has a concentration of midplate volcanoes that experienced …