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hot spot  

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  • Hotspots (or hot spots) are volcanic locales thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle. A hotspot's position on the Earth's surface is independent of tectonic plate boundaries, and so hotspots may create a chain of volcanoes as the plates move above them. (Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot_(geology))

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