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Hot Spots and Hot Spot Tracks
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Description: Hot spots and mantle plumes
Caused by rising plumes of mantle material
Volcanoes can form over them (Hawaiian Island chain)
Mantle plumes
Long-lived structures
Some originate at great depth, perhaps at the mantle-core boundary

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