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Why did the volcano in Iceland erupt?

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the heat of the volcano made the ash rise eventually the pressure was 2 much and it erupted

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Iceland is on a constructive (a.k.a divergent) plate boundary. This means that the tectonic plates move apart, creating a gap for the magma to rise up and explode out of.

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