Why are hot spots so strange?

A) They occur at plate boundaries,
B) The volcanoes at hot spots erupt once a year.
C) They only occur near transform boundaries.
D) Molten material rises from deep in the mantle below the moving lithosphere as a result of processes not explained by plate tectonics,


Answer: D

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