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About 95 per cent of active volcanoes occur at the

  1. plate subduction zones

  2. transform faults

  3. island arcs

  4. mid-oceanic ridges


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Options:
A .  1 and 4
B .  1 and 2
C .  1, 2, 3 and 4
D .  1 only
Answer: Option A
Answer: (a)
Volcanic activity occurs at two types of plate boundaries: mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones.
At mid-ocean ridges, basaltic eruptions produce new sea-floor crust. These underwater eruptions don’t produce big mountainous volcanoes, which is why they are often overlooked as the most volcanically active features on Earth.

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