{"id":1999,"date":"2026-07-24T15:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/the-hotspot-beneath-hawaii-is-getting-hotter-defying-a-long-held-geological-theory\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:27:41","slug":"the-hotspot-beneath-hawaii-is-getting-hotter-defying-a-long-held-geological-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/the-hotspot-beneath-hawaii-is-getting-hotter-defying-a-long-held-geological-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hotspot Beneath Hawaii Is Getting Hotter, Defying a Long-Held Geological Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/the-hotspot-beneath-hawaii-is-getting-hotter-defying-a-long-held-geological-theory\/\" title=\"The Hotspot Beneath Hawaii Is Getting Hotter, Defying a Long-Held Geological Theory\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Lava-Fountaining-at-Halemaumau-Crater-at-the-Summit-of-Kilauea-Volcano-777x519.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lava Fountaining at Halema\u2019uma\u2019u Crater at the Summit of K\u012blauea Volcano\" style=\"display: block;margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%\" \/><\/a>Rising mantle temperatures and two heat surges may explain why some Hawaiian volcanoes grew exceptionally large. A 3500 km (2200 mile) trail of volcanoes records the Pacific plate\u2019s slow passage over the Hawaiian hotspot. Instead of cooling through time as geologists have generally expected, the mantle plume beneath this chain appears to have warmed by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science, Space and Technology News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising mantle temperatures and two heat surges may explain why some Hawaiian volcanoes grew exceptionally large. A 3500 km (2200 mile) trail of volcanoes records [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}