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most volcanoes are located along the boundaries of plate tectonics.They may form at divergant boundaries and convergant boundaries.May form below plate tectonics
Most volcanoes are created by destructive plate tectonics at the convergence of the boundaries of two continental plates. As the plates collide and rise together they form a mountain over a hot spot (a place where underground lava-"magma"- collects), the volcano will erupt once the pressure rises to a certain level. The eruption can take the form of a small vent where smoke and steam are released, or it can be a huge eruption where lava is released along with soot, ash, and poisonous gases. These other products of an eruption often are what cause more harm to people than the lava.
A common location of these types of convergent/destructive plate boundaries is the "Pacific Ring of Fire", where about 75% of Earth's volcanoes are found.
Volcanoes can also occur at hot spots, such as at the areas of the Hawaiian islands and Yellowstone in America. This type of volcano forms when magma from the mantle rises to Earth's surface through a certain spot in the middle of the plate (i.e., the Pacific Plate for the Hawaiian Islands). This hot spot is situated beneath the center of the plate, and the volcano above moves with the plate as it moves, but the hot spot stays in place. This causes the original volcano to become extinct as its move cuts it off from its magma source. A new volcano will then form above the hot spot again. This process repeats as the plate moves and a string of volcanoes will dot the surface of the plate as the movement continues away from the hot spot.
Volcanoes usually occur where there are collision of the tectonic plates. There are 52 tectonic plates which either pull (gap and crack) or push (volcano). Volcanoes are actually tectonic plates which have magmas beneath their outer surface.
between two plate boundaries
Volcanoes typically are found at convergent boundaries and divergent boundaries, like the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Plate. Hot spots around the world account for the third place where volcanoes can occur.
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∙ 6y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe top layer of the earth is made from plates. When two plates smash together, fire can come up from the center of the earth, and that is the fire and lava from a volcanic erupption. So overall, volcanic erruptions happen when two plates smash together!
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∙ 10y agoVolcanic eruptions are most likely to occur along a roughly horseshoe-shaped rim known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. This area which mostly borders the Pacific Ocean is characterised by high tectonic activity, and holds about 75% of the world's current active and dormant volcanoes. It is also where about 90% of earthquakes occur.
The Pacific Ring of Fire stretches from the Andes Mountains in South America, north along the coasts of western Central America and North America, west across the Aleutian trench to the Kamchatka Peninsula, Japan, South to the island of Taiwan, eastern Indonesia, the Philippines and through New Zealand.
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∙ 12y agoIt can happen anytime anywere there isn't really an answer, though there is a few coutries which have volcanoes ;
Alaska Peninsula, United States
Aluetian Islands, United States
Ambae Island, Vanuatu
Ambrym Island, Vanuatu
Andaman Islands, India
Argentina
Australia
Azores Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea
CCalifornia, United StatesCameroon
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
Central Islands, Vanuatu
Chad
Chile
Chuginadak, Alaska, United States
Colombia
Cook Inlet, Alaska, United States
Costa Rica
DDemocratic Republic of Congo EEarth's MoonEcuador
El Salvador
Enceladus
Ethiopia
FGGalapagos Islands, EcuadorGrand Comore
Grand Comore Island, Indian ocean, Grand Comore
Greece
Guatemala
HHalmahera Arc, IndonesiaHawaii, United States
Heimaey, IcelandTonga Islands, Tonga
Hokkaido, Japan
IIcelandIsland of Ometepe, Nicaragua
India
Io
Italy
Izu Islands, Japan
JJapanJava, Indonesia
Jupiter's Moon
KKamchatka, RussiaKenya
Kurile Island, Russia
Kyushu, Japan
LLesser Sunda Islands, IndonesiaLibya
MMariana Islands, Central Pacific OceanMars
Martinique
Mexico
Montserrat, West Indies New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea
New Zealand
Nicaragua
OPapua New GuineaPeru
Philippines
Q RReunion Island, Indian OceanRussia
Ryukyu Islands, Japan Sangihe Islands, Indonesia
Saturn's Moon
Siau Island, Indonesia
Sicily, Italy
South Sandwich Islands
Southern Indian Ocean, Australia
Sulawesi, Indonesia
Sunda Strait, Indonesia
Sumatra, Indonesia
TTanzaniaTonga
Trinidad
UUnited States VVanuatuVenus
WWyoming, United StatesWiki User
∙ 12y agoA volcano can take place anwhere's if there is a fracture in the ground. Like when two plates pull apart, something has to fill that space, so magma comes up there and dries forming new land. When they push together, sometimes magma will come up in the folds and be blown out the top.
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∙ 14y agoAt convergent and divergent plate margins, and at hot spots in the mantle that melt through the crust.
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∙ 13y agoon the edge of plates and on the equator
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∙ 13y agoVolcanoes.
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What type of earthquake occur in Hawaii?
Usually, the kinds of earthquakes that occur in Hawaii are generated by volcanoes.
When plate tectonics cause cracks to form?
volcanoes can occur
Where do volcanos most likely occur?
Volcanoes usually occur on a major tectonic plate boundaries. Most occur near the edges of a plate, some occur in the middle of the plate.
Earthquakes and volcanoes occur at plate boundaries is true?
yes, they at the edge of the tectonic plates.
Why do the geological processes that occur at convergent boundaries vary?
because the way the plates move cause different processes to occur and covergent boundaries such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and rivers/oceans
What seasons do volcanoes occur?
volcanoes can occur in any season
Does regional metamorphism occur under volcanoes?
Yes they do occur under volcanoes
Do volcanoes occur in oceans and earthquakes occur on land?
Earthquakes and volcanoes both occur in land and ocean. =)
Do Hotspot volcanoes occur along subduction zones.?
No, hotspot volcanoes do not occur along subduction zones. They occur when plates pass over mantle hot spots.
What place in the world do volcanoes occur?
Volcanoes mostly occur in areas where tectonic plates meet. Most of the active volcanoes in the world occur in what is called the Ring of Fire around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
Where do volcanoes occur the most?
The most volcanoes occur around the Pacific Ocean, in an area called the Ring of Fire.
Why do so many of earths volcanoes occur along plate boundries?
Volcanoes occur near plate boudaries because volcanoes need water to erupt.
Volcanoes and earthquakes are likely to occur?
Yes, they are likely to occur.
Do volcanoes occur randomly over Earth's surface?
Volcanoes do not occur randomly over Earth's surface. They occur along the located mark of plate boundaries.
Where do moderate volcanoes occur?
Hawaii
What sphere do volcanoes occur in?
geosphere
Can volcanoes occur underwater?
Yes and a great many of the earth's volcanoes are underwater.
