What causes the convection currents in the mantle?

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What causes the convection currents in the mantle?

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I believe your answer is heat . In Earth's mantle, large amounts of heat are transferred by convection currents

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Convection currents in the magma drive plate tectonics. Heat generated from the radioactive decay of elements deep in the interior of the Earth creates magma (molten rock) in the aesthenosphere.

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