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The island of hawaii is the youngest, and the islands get progressively older to the northwest. Plate tectonic theory explains this as:.
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The island of hawaii is the youngest, and the islands get progressively older to the northwest. Plate tectonic theory explains this as:.

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A fixed hot spot currently situated under Hawaii across which the Pacific plate is moving in a northwesterly direction
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