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How has tectonic activity helped create so many land forms in the United states?

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Movements of tectonic plates create volcanoes along the plate boundaries, which erupt and formmountains. A volcanic arc system is a series of volcanoes that form near a subduction zone where the crust of a sinking oceanic plate melts.
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