Question

Most of the volcanoes across the world are caused by the movement of tectonic plates. So why is that there is no volcanism in the himalayas?

Answer 1

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• At diverging plate boundaries, earthquakes occur as the plates pull away from each other.

• Volcanoes also form as magma rises upward from the underlying mantle along the gap between the two plates.

• We almost never see these volcanoes, because most of them are located on the sea floor.

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