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As two plates spread apart from each other at the boundary, magma that was trapped below wells up between them. This magma can be released in the form of volcanoes or ooze out from rift valleys.

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What causes volcanoes to form at spreading plate boundaries?

As two plates spread apart from each other at the boundary, magma that was trapped below wells up between them. This magma can be released in the form of volcanoes or ooze out from rift valleys.


What type of plate boundary causes volcanic eruptions?

There are two plate boundaries that cause volcanoes. They are the divergent and convergent plate boundaries.


What is the other name for a spreading plate boundary?

Divergent boundaries is the other name for a spreading plate boundary.


What type of plate boundary triggers the formation of active volcanoes as magma rises beneath the surface?

Oceanic-to-Oceanic plate boundary triggers the formation of active volcanoes as magma rises beneath the surface.Transform plate boundaries trigger the formation of active volcanoes as magma rises beneath the surface.


What kind of plate boundary separates the arctic plate and the Pacific Plate?

Divergent Plate Boundary. (Seafloor Spreading).


What is the fastest spreading divergent plate boundary?

The mid-ocean ridge system is the longest continuous divergent plate boundary on Earth.


What kind of plate boundary commonly forms a chain of volcanoes?

The Transform plate boundary commonly forms a chain of volcanoes - Professer Humifiken


Are there earthquakes volcanoes hurricanes and tsunamis at he nazca plate boundary?

The plate boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate does produce volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Hurricanes have nothing to do with plate boundaries.


What do you call volcanoes that aren't on plate boundary edges?

Such volcanoes are hot spot volcanoes.


What plate boundary formed lake Victoria in Africa?

spreading or divergent boundary


What kind of plate boundary causes mountains to form?

The plate boundary that causes mountains to form is called a convergent boundary.


Where do volcanoes errupt the most?

Where there is a tectonic plate boundary

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