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It starts with seafloor spreading, then when the oceanic plates converge, or collide, the less dense plate with sink under the denser plate and will shove it into what is called a subduction zone. Then the rock will melt and erupt out of the peak that was formed by the two plates colliding. It will not erupt until it has enough force though.

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