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What substance comes toward earth's crust through mantle plumes?

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Some volcanoes form over active hot spots . Scientists count about 50 hot spots on the Earth. Hot spots may be in the middle of a tectonic plate. Hot spots lie directly above a column of hot rock called a mantle plume . Mantle plumes continuously bring magma up from the mantle towards the crust   Figure below  .

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