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Hot Spots

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On the Rocks


By Regina Ramírez García, Hugo Enrique González Figueroa Salinas, Mariana Colores Ramos, Jacqueline Hernández Angeles

Hot Spots is an informative video that ilustrates through stop motion technique, the intra-plate island formation due to volcanic activity as one of the most accepted theories. This theory describes the upward flow of a mantellic plume from the outter Core to the Earth's surface as the responsible phenomenon of the island sequence formation due to tectonic plates' movement.


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