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Noun Concept

Categories: Plate tectonics, Volcanology, Hotspots (geology), Structure of the Earth, Hotspot volcanoes

hot spot hotspot

A point of relatively intense heat or radiation WordNet 3.0

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A point of relatively intense heat or radiation WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In geology, hotspots are volcanic locales thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle. Wikipedia

An area of unusually high volcanic activity Wikipedia Disambiguation

Volcanic region Wikidata

An area in the middle of a lithospheric plate where magma rises from the mantle and erupts at the Earth's surface. OmegaWiki

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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

hot spot, hotspot

Wikipedia

hotspot (geology)

Wikidata

hotspot

OmegaWiki

hot spot, hotspot

Wikipedia Redirections

geological hotspot, Geological hotspots, Hot-spot hypothesis, Hot-spot volcanism, hot spot (geology), hot spot island, Hot spot islands, Hot spot volcano, Hot spot volcanoes, hotspot island, Hotspot track, hotspot volcanic chain, Hotspot volcano, List of hotspots and hotspot chains, List of volcanic hotspots, List of volcanic regions postulated to be hotspots, Volcanic hot spot, volcanic hotspot, Volcanoes formed because of hotspots

Wikidata Alias

hot spots, hotspots