A hotspot that is now located in the Atlantic played a key role in forming the lakes, home to a fifth of the world's fresh ...

"The hotspot made the first imprint," said Aibing Li, seismologist at the University of Houston and co-author of the study. Hotspots, like those that formed Hawaii and Yellowstone, are plumes of ...

has found evidence that a geographic hotspot laid the groundwork for the formation of the Great Lakes. In their study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the group studied ...

The Great Lakes were formed through a combination of geological ... Unlike hotspots that create volcanic islands, such as those in Hawaii, the Cape Verde hotspot's effect on the Great Lakes ...