EARTH SCIENCE
VOLCANOES
Question
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Mid-Ocean Ridges
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Where Plates Subduct
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Transform Boundaries
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Diverging Boundaries
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Detailed explanation-1: -Volcanoes do not typically occur at transform boundaries. One of the reasons for this is that there is little or no magma available at the plate boundary.
Detailed explanation-2: -Transform plate boundaries are where plates slide laterally past one another, producing shallow earthquakes but little or no volcanic activity.
Detailed explanation-3: -The two types of plate boundaries that are most likely to produce volcanic activity are divergent plate boundaries and convergent plate boundaries.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the world’s volcanoes are found around the edges of tectonic plates, both on land and in the oceans. On land, volcanoes form when one tectonic plate moves under another. Usually a thin, heavy oceanic plate subducts, or moves under, a thicker continental plate.