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As two plates spread apart from each other at the boundary, magma that was trapped below wells up between them. This magma can be released in the form of volcanoes or ooze out from rift valleys.

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What causes volcano to form at a spreading plate boundary?

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Light lithospheric material melts in the subducted zone and gradually rises through the crust (by a process called overhead stoping).

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What causes volcanoes to form at spreading plate boundaries?

As two plates spread apart from each other at the boundary, magma that was trapped below wells up between them. This magma can be released in the form of volcanoes or ooze out from rift valleys.


What plate boundary is not associated with volcanoes?

A transform plate boundary


What is the difference between hotspot volcanoes and volcanoes formed at plate boundaries?

hotspot volcanoes are formed away from the edge of plate boundaries. Plate boundary volcanoes are near a plate boundary


What is the other name for a spreading plate boundary?

Divergent boundaries is the other name for a spreading plate boundary.


What type of plate boundary causes volcanic eruptions?

There are two plate boundaries that cause volcanoes. They are the divergent and convergent plate boundaries.


What kind of plate boundary separates the arctic plate and the Pacific Plate?

Divergent Plate Boundary. (Seafloor Spreading).


What is the fastest spreading divergent plate boundary?

The mid-ocean ridge system is the longest continuous divergent plate boundary on Earth.


What kind of plate boundary commonly forms a chain of volcanoes?

The Transform plate boundary commonly forms a chain of volcanoes - Professer Humifiken


Are there earthquakes volcanoes hurricanes and tsunamis at he nazca plate boundary?

The plate boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate does produce volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Hurricanes have nothing to do with plate boundaries.


What do you call volcanoes that aren't on plate boundary edges?

Such volcanoes are hot spot volcanoes.


What plate boundary formed lake Victoria in Africa?

spreading or divergent boundary


At what type of boundary do hot-spot volcanoes form at?

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