How do rift volcanoes form?

Answer 1

When the two plates collide, the oceanic plate is pulled under the continental plate. As the plate is pushed further down, heat and pressure increase, which causes the crust to melt and form magma, Volcanoes are created along the plate collision to release the pressurized magma.

Answer 2

As the crust spreads at a rift, it thins, and faulting occurs, as the rock between the faults moves wider apart, magma from the earth's interior rises to fill that space. Eventually the magma rises to the surface and forms a volcano

Answer 3

Volcanoes cannot be formed at a continental rift, due to the fact that a volcano cannot form between two continental plates: it normally forms when one continental plate and an oceanic plate collide.

Normally, a volcano forms when one continental and one oceanic plate collides. The denser oceanic plate

Answer 4

Rift volcanoes form when magma rises into the gap between diverging plates. They

thus occur at or near actual plate boundaries.

Answer 5

by dirt and sediment pushed down from the Continental slope

Answer 6

By drifting apart.