A `hotspot' stands still and melts the tectonic plate moving above it.
Eurasian Plate
Tectonic Plate
The ring of fire, or a tetonic plate is near
iit is usually the tetonic plates
The Eurasian plate. For more details go to: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/tectonic.htm
its convergent!
A tetonic plate can ram into another plate and shift downward underneath the other plate. This causes a subduction zone and moutains, for example the Himalayas or the Andes
it is the hot pink one with the purple strips that's got a fat but and i luv it!!
It isn't on a plate boundary. It's on a hotspot.
Grimsvotn is a hotspot volcano on a diverrrgent plate boundry (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
Hotspot volcanoes form over a fixed hotspot in the mantle, resulting in a chain of volcanoes as the tectonic plate moves over it, like the Hawaiian Islands. Volcanoes at plate boundaries are formed by the interaction of tectonic plates, where one plate is forced under another (subduction) or plates move apart (divergence), creating volcanic activity along the boundary, like the Ring of Fire.
That would be a hotspot.