GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Volcanoes are most common in these geologically active boundaries. The two types of plate boundaries that are most likely to produce volcanic activity are divergent plate boundaries and convergent plate boundaries. Divergent Plate Boundaries At a divergent boundary, tectonic plates move apart from one another.

Detailed explanation-2: -A subducting plate creates volcanoes. Many of the world’s volcanoes are the result of subduction at a convergent plate boundary. Melting at divergent plate boundaries is due to release of pressure.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rift volcanoes form when magma rises into the gap between diverging plates. They thus occur at or near actual plate boundaries.

Detailed explanation-4: -Volcanoes are one kind of feature that forms along convergent plate boundaries, where two tectonic plates collide and one moves beneath the other.

Detailed explanation-5: -Destructive, or convergent, plate boundaries are where the tectonic plates are moving towards each other. Volcanoes form here in two settings where either oceanic plate descends below another oceanic plate or an oceanic plate descends below a continental plate.