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A volcano forms where magma is close to the surface of the earth. It can be found where an oceanic plate goes underneath a continental plate, or at a hot spot. A volcano builds up pressure and explodes, sending out hot magma. A mountain is just built by plate tectonics, it does not emit magma.

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