Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of geology. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

More information: Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte et al, Zircon xenocrysts from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) reveal hotspot activity since the middle Jurassic, ESS Open Archive (2023). DOI: 10.22541/au.

These metamorphic ages obtained are consistent with the ages of the orogenic events occurring in the area, as well as the plutonism, and show that there are several pulses of metamorphism preserved in ...