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How did the volcano on the land
Form?

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Answer:

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. When this happens, the ocean plate sinks into the mantle. Water trapped in the rocks in this plate gets squeezed out.

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User Gerard Jaryczewski
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Due to the shifting of the plutonic plates in the ground volcanos starting forming.
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