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How are the locations of volcanoes related to plate boundaries?

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Plates rip apart at a divergent plate boundary, causing volcanic activity and shallow earthquakes; and. At a convergent plate boundary, one plate dives or “subducts” beneath the other, resulting in a variety of earthquakes and a line of volcanoes on the overriding plate
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volcanoes are the result of subduction at a convergent plate boundary
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