Another discrepancy in the data from the Samoa islands is that subaerial rock samples from Savai ' i, the most western of the islands, were too young by several million years to fit the classic hotspot model of age progression in an island chain, raising arguments among scientists that the Samoa islands does not have a plume origin.

Another discrepancy in the data from the Samoa islands is that subaerial rock samples from Savai ' i were too young by several million years to fit the classic hotspot model of age progression in an island chain, raising arguments among scientists that the Samoa islands does not have a plume origin.

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