The Emperor Seamount-Hawaiian Island chain

a. is a line of active volcanoes.
b. is a line of extinct volcanic structures.
c. results from volcanism along a mid-ocean ridge.
d. records the direction of plate motion.


d. records the direction of plate motion.

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