Usually means: Hot rock rising through mantle.
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  1. mantle plume: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. mantle plume: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Mantle plume: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (mantle plume)

noun:  (geology) An upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere.

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