hot mantle

collocation in English

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hot
adjective
uk
/hɒt/us
/hɑːt/
having a ...
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mantle
noun
uk
/ˈmæn.təl/us
/ˈmæn.t̬əl/
formal
the responsibilities of an important position or job, especially as given from the person who had the job to the person who ...
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(Definition ofhotandmantlefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Instead, thehotmantleplumederived basalts are likely to induce partial crustal melting.
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Thus, although unusually low wave speeds have been taken to indicate anomalouslyhotmantlebeneath hot spots, this interpretation is ambiguous.
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Second, flow ofhotmantlematerial encounters the base of the thin lithosphere and often results in melting and a new phase of volcanism.
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Transient uplift can occur over a thermal anomaly due to convecting anomalouslyhotmantle, and disappears when convection wanes.
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Komatiites probably form in extremelyhotmantleplumes.
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Ashotmantleplume materials rise and reach lower pressures, the hot materials melt and interact with the materials in the upper mantle, creating magma.
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In this model, tectonic plates diverge at mid-ocean ridges, wherehotmantlerock flows upward to fill the space.
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One suggests that they are due tohotmantleplumes that rise as thermal diapirs from the core-mantle boundary.
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Hotmantlematerials rising up in a plume can spread out radially beneath the tectonic plate causing regions of uplift.
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These immense volumes of mafic lava were generated in two major pulses, mostly via ahotmantleplume.
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This extension is associated with very low seismic velocities in the upper mantle above approximately 400 km depth associated with relativelyhotmantleand low degrees of partial melting.
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As oceanic lithosphere is formed at spreading ridges fromhotmantlematerial, it gradually cools and thickens with age (and thus adds distance from the ridge).
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