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    The East Australia hotspot (which is now believed by some scientists to represent multiple hotspots including a southwestern Cosgrove hotspot) is a volcanic...
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    Tasmantid hotspot (39) 40°24′S 155°30′E / 40.4°S 155.5°E / -40.4; 155.5 (Tasmanid hotspot), w= .8 az= 007° ±5° rate= 63 ±5 mm/yr East Australia hotspot (30)...
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    plate and have no active volcanoes, but due to passing over the East Australia hotspot, recent volcanism has occurred during the Holocene, in the Newer...
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  • A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation. Norman Myers wrote about...
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    New South Wales, which formed when this region of Australia passed over the East Australia hotspot around 23 million years ago. Mount Warning, Lamington...
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    The Kerguelen hotspot is a volcanic hotspot at the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Indian Ocean. The Kerguelen hotspot has produced basaltic lava for...
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    Newer Volcanics Province (category Hotspot tracks)
    geological area which is a volcanic field, formed by the East Australia hotspot across south-eastern Australia. It covers an area of 15,000 square kilometres (5...
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    Southwest Australia Global Diversity Hotspot. The region includes the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of Western Australia. The region...
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    Kerguelen hotspot. The ASP hotspot was originally located beneath Australia and a chain of seamounts connecting it to the southern end of the Ninety East Ridge...
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    site survey intended to examine the hotspot hypothesis for the ridge. It had been assumed that India and Australia were on a single tectonic plate for...
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