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Describe how volcanoes can form away from plate boundaries.

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Volcanoes are also common along tectonic boundaries where plates pull apart, allowing magma to rise from the mantle. ... Less commonly, a volcano can form over a hot spot far from a plate boundary. Heat carried by material rising from deep in the mantle melts some of the rock in the lithosphere above it.

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