There are about 25 large volcanoes that make up the New England Seamounts over a distance of about 1200 km, and they get younger towards the east. At least two Mesozoic hotspot tracks have been postulated for eastern North America; the Jurassic Verde and Cretaceous Great Meteor tracks , , , , . It formed the New England seamount chain and the … Hotspot (geology) New England Seamounts New England hotspot Monteregian Hills Volcanology of Northern Canada

The most recent volcanic activity of this hotspot created the Great Meteor group of seamounts that are on the African tectonic plate and that formed 10-20 million years ago.

The Great Meteor hotspot track, also referred to as the New England hotspot track, is a vast trail of hotspot magmatism in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Atlantic, one of the longest hot spot tracks is the Great Meteor, or New England hot spot, located at 28ºW, 33ºN.

According to Morgan [39] , these two parallel and closely spaced hotspot tracks passed through Ontario and the New England region at slightly different times (c. 40 Myr apart).