Your assignment

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YOUR ASSIGNMENT
Calculate Seamount Ages using Pacific Plate
Velocity

• Use the table of Samoan seamount names and
  distances from the seamount to Vailuluu.
• Determine the age of the islands and seamounts in
  Samoa based on the Pacific plate velocity that
  you calculated using the Hawaiian data.

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YOUR ASSIGNMENT
Calculate Seamount Ages using Pacific Plate
Velocity

• Is Samoa the result of a mantle plume, like
  Hawaii?
• Or Are there problems with the data?

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YOUR ASSIGNMENT
Calculate Seamount Ages using Pacific Plate
Velocity