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Would it be possible for a volcano to form off the Atlantic coast of the US?
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A rather silly answer would be to point out that the mid-Atlantic ridge is technically off the Atlantic coast -- just 2500 kilometers away!
More seriously: it is always possible that a new hot spot will form, like that which formed the New England Seamounts chain of extinct underwater volcanic peaks extending to the east of Cape Cod all the way to the (still volcanically active) Azores.
(For some reason Pinduck85 seems to have forgotten about hotspot volcanoes. Also volcanoes from rifting - hmm, come to think of it The St. Lawrence River and estuary is a failed rift zone with a line of ancient extinct volcanoes running eastward of Montreal).
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Would it be possible for a volcano to form off the Atlantic cost of the US?
In the current geologic setting off the East Coast, there is no reason to believe that one could form. Although not impossible because the forces that can trigger volcanoes are not entirely understood, it is highly unlikely one could form. The reasons for this, unlike the pacific coast there is no active subduction on the East Coast to create volcanoes and drive a magmatic production process. There is also no known active hotspot along the East Coast. The problem for a volcano to form in this region goes back to there, doesn't seem to be any way for the East Coast of the United States geologically to sustain any form of magma production that could cause a volcano.
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Would it be possible for a volcano to form off the Atlantic cost of the US?
In the current geologic setting off the East Coast, there is no reason to believe that one could form. Although not impossible because the forces that can trigger volcanoes are not entirely understood, it is highly unlikely one could form. The reasons for this, unlike the pacific coast there is no active subduction on the East Coast to create volcanoes and drive a magmatic production process. There is also no known active hotspot along the East Coast. The problem for a volcano to form in this region goes back to there, doesn't seem to be any way for the East Coast of the United States geologically to sustain any form of magma production that could cause a volcano.
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