Which of the following is false relative to hot spots?
A) Hot spots can occur beneath both oceanic and continental crust.
B) They remain relatively fixed in relationship to the migrating plates.
C) They are responsible for the formation of the Hawaiian-Emperor Islands chain.
D) Hot spot activity is unrelated to the formation of Iceland, which sits atop a sea-floor spreading ridge in the North Atlantic.
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A) earthquakes.
B) volcanoes.
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