A hotspot is a place, deep in the mantle, which stays hot for millions of years and keeps feeding magma to volcanoes at the surface, even far from the edges of the plates.
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什么是 Hotspot?
A hotspot is a region of volcanism whose position does not depend on the plate boundaries, active over tens of millions of years, and thought to be fed by mantle that is hotter than the mantle around it.