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Sauron [17]
3 years ago
5

Why do volcanoes occur at the edges of plates?​

Geography
1 answer:
notka56 [123]3 years ago
4 0

Answer: Most of the world's volcanoes are found around the edges of tectonic plates, both on land and in the oceans. On land, volcanoes form when one tectonic plate moves under another. Usually a thin, heavy oceanic plate subducts, or moves under, a thicker continental plate.

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