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What is the place where volcanoes form in the middle of plates called?
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∙ 12y ago
its called a hot spot, its Region of the Earth's upper mantle that upwells to melt through the crust to form a volcanic feature. Most volcanoes that cannot be ascribed either to a subduction zone or to seafloor spreading at midocean ridges are attributed to hot spots. The 5% of known world volcanoes not closely related to such plate margins are regarded as hot-spot volcanoes. Hawaiian volcanoes are the best examples of this type, occurring near the centre of the northern portion of the Pacific Plate. A chain of extinct volcanoes or volcanic islands (and seamounts), such as the Hawaiian chain, can form over millions of years where a lithospheric plate moves over a hot spot. The active volcanoes all lie at one end of the chain or ridge, and the ages of the islands or the ridge increase with their distance from those sites of volcanic activity.
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∙ 14y agohot spots. Hot spots are a volcanically active area of Earth's surface, commonly far from a tectonic plate boundary.
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∙ 13y agoWeak spot, (plume zone).
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∙ 11y agoIt's called a hot spot.
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∙ 15y agohot spot
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∙ 12y agohot spot
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Where is a place where volcanoes have formed away from plates?
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What is a thin place on Earths crust called where a volcanoes can form?
HOTSPOTS are a place on the earth's crust in the middle of a tectonic plate where volcanoes get formed rapidly.
What place in the world do volcanoes occur?
Volcanoes mostly occur in areas where tectonic plates meet. Most of the active volcanoes in the world occur in what is called the Ring of Fire around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
Why volcano is a geomorphic process?
it moves crustal materials from place to place
What is the area called that major volcanic activity and earthquakes occur?
It is called the Ring of Fire. Or, if you weren't being specific, a place where earthquakes occur is called a fault line, where the continental plates meet. When they shift, it causes earthquakes and can form volcanoes.
Where is a place where volcanoes have formed away from plates?
my but
What is a thin place on Earths crust called where a volcanoes can form?
HOTSPOTS are a place on the earth's crust in the middle of a tectonic plate where volcanoes get formed rapidly.
What place in the world do volcanoes occur?
Volcanoes mostly occur in areas where tectonic plates meet. Most of the active volcanoes in the world occur in what is called the Ring of Fire around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
Do volcanoes happen in the same place?
No, volcanoes don't occur in the same place because there was a volcano in Hawaii and maybe somewhere in Asia.
Why volcano is a geomorphic process?
it moves crustal materials from place to place
Where does volcanoes form?
Well, volcanoes form in many places. but the main place where volcanoes form is along the border of plates. this happens when one plate goes under the other and starts forming into a volcano.
What is the area called that major volcanic activity and earthquakes occur?
It is called the Ring of Fire. Or, if you weren't being specific, a place where earthquakes occur is called a fault line, where the continental plates meet. When they shift, it causes earthquakes and can form volcanoes.
What types of volcanoes are formed at spreading centers?
Volcanoes at spreading centers is referred to as spreading center volcanism. This usually takes place on mid-oceanic ridges where the plates diverge.
What is the place called where tectonics plates interact?
a fault is what it is called.
Are most volcanoes on land caused by the earths plates moving away form each other?
Sometimes it causes earthquakes, as well as when earths plates move in opposite directions. But yes, volcanoes are also formed when these plates move out of place or away from each other, for example Hawaii. That is an example of plates sliding through the ocean which causes islands.
Where are the most volcanoes located?
The Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
When to tectonic plates push into each other the place the to plates meet is called what boundary?
Fault lines
