mantle plume

noun Geology.

plume (def. 10).

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single bed of sedimentary rock, consisting of one kind of matter representing continuous deposition

process where the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves

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mantle plume

—n
	another name for plume

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