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When a destructive boundary of two tectonic plates occurs the oceanic crust sinks underneath the continental crust as it is more dense, the oceanic crust then melts in the subduction zone and becomes magma in the mantle, this increases the pressure in the mantle and causes the magma to shoot up the volcano shaft and burst out of the top, this is an eruption

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