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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 7/25/2022

Where the plate of the earth collide and pull apart.

(If you don't know what I mean by plates of the earth Wikipedia plate tectonics)

The only other places volcanoes occur is above hot spots

(hot spots are also explained on the plate tectonics Wikipedia page)

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Darlene Tromp

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