The Hawaiian island chain (Figure 1), including many intraplate volcanic islands with a clear age progression, is the archetype of a hotspot track, which is thought to be the result of a plume from the deep mantle impinging on the moving plate (Morgan, 1971). The thermal structure and melt contents of the overlying lithosphere-asthenosphere system are theoretically expected to be significantly modified by the mantle plume (Hirschmann, 2010;Sleep, 1990). Many seismic and numerical simulation models have been proposed to illustrate the Hawaiian plume and how it interacts with the overlying Pacific plate (e.g.,
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