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Scientists Finally Unravel Hawaii’s Bizarre Origin Story

The Hawaiian chain of volcanoes is many things: spectacular, incandescent, and volcanologically speaking unique. As a new Nature study by the Australian National University (ANU) has pointed out, these volcanoes are essentially composed of two tracks growing alongside each other, and they think they finally know why. At present, the regions effusive volcanism is centered…
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