Hotspot volcanoes in an oceanic plate ____
a. ?create large amounts of serpentine as they react with groundwater
b. ?tend to form large lava flows from wet basalt
c. ?are among the most explosive of volcanoes
d. ?originate from melted rhyolite in the seafloor
e. ?originate from deep peridotite, which rises as a plume of dry basalt
ANSWER: e
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