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A convergent plate boundary, otherwise known as a destructive plate margin, forms volcanoes. This happens when
-The subducting plate brings down silicates such as sand down with it.
-Eventually, the plate melts but mixes with the silicates. This forms a more viscose but lighter magma
-This rises because it is lighter until it reaches the moho, (the boundary between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere, (the plate and the stuff it floats own). This is the other plate.
-It then breaks though, slowly rising to the surface.
-It then erupts out of a volcano a few miles in to land.
(This is the continental-oceanic process. The oceanic-oceanic, is slightly different).
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What kind of plates cause volcanoes?
Plates do not cause volcanoes. Volcanoes generally form at the boundaries between plates. They form at convergent and divergent boundaries.
What land features are formed from a convergent boundary?
Convergent boundaries form mountains and volcanoes.
Is forming underwater mountains and volcanoes convergent divergent or transform?
Underwater volcanoes and mountains can form at both convergent and divergent boundaries.
Is Mount Vesuvius near a hot spot divergent or convergent plate boundary?
Vesuvius is associated with a convergent boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
How do volcanoes that form over a hot spot differ from volcanoes that form at convergent plate boundaries?
The convergent mountains usually come in ranges, rather than solitary peaks.
What kind of plates cause volcanoes?
Plates do not cause volcanoes. Volcanoes generally form at the boundaries between plates. They form at convergent and divergent boundaries.
What land features are formed from a convergent boundary?
Convergent boundaries form mountains and volcanoes.
Is forming underwater mountains and volcanoes convergent divergent or transform?
Underwater volcanoes and mountains can form at both convergent and divergent boundaries.
Is Mount Vesuvius near a hot spot divergent or convergent plate boundary?
Vesuvius is associated with a convergent boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
Is a volcanic island transform?
No. Volcanoes do not form at transform boundaries. Volcanic islands can form at convergent boundaries and at hot spots.
What kind of boundary do Shield volcanoes form?
hot spots and convergent boundaries
How do volcanoes that form over a hot spot differ from volcanoes that form at convergent plate boundaries?
The convergent mountains usually come in ranges, rather than solitary peaks.
Volcanoes that form along convergent plate boundaries are located?
at the edge of plate collisions
What is the similarities between convergent divergent and transform boundaries?
they both form volcanoes and earthquakes
What kinds of volcanoes form on converging plate boundaries?
Composite cone volcanos are the most common.. Shielding and other types are results from a divergent boundary.
How do convergent boundaries set up conditions that form volcanoes?
It collides with the upper mantle that forms volcanoes with violent eruptions
If composite volcanoes often form along convergent boundaries which plate should be surrounded by the most composite volcanoes?
pacific
