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A volcano forms at a convergent boundary when two plates (At least one being Oceanic) collide. Then the less dense Oceanic plate sinks/slides under the other. This process is called subduction. From here the Oceanic plate melts in the mantle. It heats up and the heat pressure makes the lava rise into the mountain created from the two plates convergence creating a volcano. And that's how volcanoes form at convergent boundaries.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 15y agoA convergent boundary will only produce volcanoes where one of the plates subducts under the other. The subducting plate is dense, cold, and contains lots of water. As it is drawn or pushed under the less dense plate with which it is colliding, it begins a downward movement into the asthenosphere, where high temperatures along with the effects of trapped water, cause it to melt. When it melts, it becomes more buoyant than the surrounding rock and will rise toward the surface. If it reaches the surface and erupts with lava, it has become a volcano.
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∙ 11y agoconvergent plate boundary is the collision of two plates the denser one subduction below the low dancer plate, the geothermal gradient increasing cases the melting of subducted and generates magma which cases volcanoes.
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What kind of plates cause volcanoes?
Plates do not cause volcanoes. Volcanoes generally form at the boundaries between plates. They form at convergent and divergent boundaries.
What land features are formed from a convergent boundary?
Convergent boundaries form mountains and volcanoes.
Is forming underwater mountains and volcanoes convergent divergent or transform?
Underwater volcanoes and mountains can form at both convergent and divergent boundaries.
Is Mount Vesuvius near a hot spot divergent or convergent plate boundary?
Vesuvius is associated with a convergent boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
How do volcanoes that form over a hot spot differ from volcanoes that form at convergent plate boundaries?
The convergent mountains usually come in ranges, rather than solitary peaks.
What kind of plates cause volcanoes?
Plates do not cause volcanoes. Volcanoes generally form at the boundaries between plates. They form at convergent and divergent boundaries.
What land features are formed from a convergent boundary?
Convergent boundaries form mountains and volcanoes.
Is forming underwater mountains and volcanoes convergent divergent or transform?
Underwater volcanoes and mountains can form at both convergent and divergent boundaries.
Is Mount Vesuvius near a hot spot divergent or convergent plate boundary?
Vesuvius is associated with a convergent boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
Is a volcanic island transform?
No. Volcanoes do not form at transform boundaries. Volcanic islands can form at convergent boundaries and at hot spots.
What kind of boundary do Shield volcanoes form?
hot spots and convergent boundaries
How do volcanoes that form over a hot spot differ from volcanoes that form at convergent plate boundaries?
The convergent mountains usually come in ranges, rather than solitary peaks.
Volcanoes that form along convergent plate boundaries are located?
at the edge of plate collisions
What is the similarities between convergent divergent and transform boundaries?
they both form volcanoes and earthquakes
What kinds of volcanoes form on converging plate boundaries?
Composite cone volcanos are the most common.. Shielding and other types are results from a divergent boundary.
How do convergent boundaries set up conditions that form volcanoes?
It collides with the upper mantle that forms volcanoes with violent eruptions
If composite volcanoes often form along convergent boundaries which plate should be surrounded by the most composite volcanoes?
pacific
