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Where are volcanos most common?

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The ring of fire!! Or the edges of tectonic plates.

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where plate tectonics meet, plate tectonics come together and form a volcanoe, and there are masses of magma in "pockets" and once it hits a certain pressure, they erupt. there is a place near Indonesia called the "ring of fire" and there is a huge chain of volcanoes there.

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