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Beneath the Earth's crust is a lot of magma. Thus as the plates pull apart, it leaves a gap through which the magma can travel and erupt as lava. For example at the Mid Atlantic Ridge, there are divergent plate boundaries. The 'gap' between the divorcing plates allows magma to boil through, building up the ridge in the process.

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