Question
Scientists wondered how volcanoes can be located so far from the tectonic plate powder boundaries until one part of one proposed idea of ____where the magma is much hotter than the surrounding magma
Transform faults hotspots plate mid-ocean ridges
Transform faults hotspots plate mid-ocean ridges
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GPT-4o mini
The correct term to fill in the blank is **hotspots**.
So the complete sentence would read:
"Scientists wondered how volcanoes can be located so far from the tectonic plate boundaries until one part of one proposed idea of **hotspots**, where the magma is much hotter than the surrounding magma."
Hotspots are volcanic regions thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle, allowing magma to form and lead to volcanic activity even in the middle of tectonic plates.
So the complete sentence would read:
"Scientists wondered how volcanoes can be located so far from the tectonic plate boundaries until one part of one proposed idea of **hotspots**, where the magma is much hotter than the surrounding magma."
Hotspots are volcanic regions thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle, allowing magma to form and lead to volcanic activity even in the middle of tectonic plates.