The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall: The Collapse of the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain

Brian Boston1, Phillip Cilli2, Donna J Shillington3, Anthony Brian Watts4, Robert A Dunn5, Ingo Grevemeyer6, Garrett Ito5, Paul Wessel5 and Uri S Ten Brink7, (1)Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, United States, (4)Univ Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, (7)US Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States