Most volcanoes that occur in the interiors of plates are believed to be produced by mantle plumes, columns of molten rock that rise from deep within the mantle.
人们认为,大多数发生在板块内部的火山爆发都是由地幔柱造成的,地幔柱是指从地幔深处涌出的熔岩柱体。
The plumes apparently originate at great depths, perhaps as deep as the boundary between the core and the mantle, and many have been active for a very long time.