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Principally on constructive plate margins, from mantle magma welling up through the fracture to form a mid-ocean ridge such as the Mid-Atlantic / Reykjanes Ridges junction whose above-surface expression is Iceland.

Also of course lava flows from coastal volcanoes - those these are often associated with mid-ocean ridges and intra-plate "hot-spots". (The latter concept is, I think, still a matter of debate.)

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