Questions and Answers
What is the primary cause of hotspot volcanoes?
Rising plumes of mantle magma
What happens when a mantle plume rises into the shallow mantle?
It partially melts
What characterizes the movement of mantle plumes that form hotspots?
They are relatively stationary
What do hotspot tracks or chains produce over millions of years?
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What eventually happens to the hotspot volcanoes as the tectonic plate moves over the location of a plume eruption?
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