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Any mountian that forms over a hot spot is volcanic. The molten rock rises to the earth's surface in a mantle and forms a volcano

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Where do shield volcanos occur?

Not at plate boundaries but instead form over hot spots.


How do seamounts normally form?

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There are two areas where volcanic mountains often form. They are subduction zones and hot spots.


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hot spots


Explain how volcanoes that are located at hot spots form?

Volcanoes located at hot spots form by lying directly above columns of hot rock that rise through Earth's mantle. As a tectonic plate moves over a mantle plume, rising magma causes a chain of volcanic islands to form.


How do volcanic mountains form at locations that are not near plate boundaries?

They are explained as 'hot spots' in the Earth's mantle, such as Yellowstone and the Hawaiian Island Chain, where heat from the Earth's interior is rising in a suspected current to the always moving crust.


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