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Why are so many volcanoes found on the ring of fire around the margin of the pacific ocean?

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The Ring of Fire runs along the borders of the Pacific ocean.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Ring of Fire is also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt. It is a line of volcanos (and subsequent earthquakes) that surrounds the Pacific Ocean; this is where the majority of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on Earth occur.

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the oceanic plates beneath lighter Continental plates, also because of the location of most of the Earth's sebduction zones.  
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