Injecting hot fudge into ice cream and causing the ice cream to melt is an appropriate analogy for which cause of magma generation?
A) melting due to a decrease in pressure
B) melting due to an addition of volatiles
C) melting due to heat transfer from rising magma
D) flux melting

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The analogy of injecting hot fudge into ice cream, causing it to melt, is most appropriately compared to melting due to heat transfer from rising magma (C). This is because the hot fudge represents the hot magma transferring its heat to the surrounding cooler material (ice cream), causing it to melt, similar to how rising magma can heat and melt surrounding rock in the Earth's crust.

Injecting Hot Fudge into Ice Cream and Causing the Ice