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Convergent Plate Boundaries. Sections of the Ring of Fire, subduction zones that surround much of the Pacific Ocean, are underwater. Submarine volcanoes at these convergent plate boundaries are much like their counterparts on land. Many of these volcanoes form new islands that last only a short time. Left: Perhaps the most famous submarine volcano is Krakatau, a submerged caldera located between Java and Sumatra.
A common location of these types of convergent/destructive plate boundaries is the Pacific Ring of Fire , where about 75% of Earth's volcanoes are found. Volcanoes can also occur at hot spots, such as at the areas of the Hawaiian islands and Yellowstone in America.This type of volcano forms when magma from the mantle rises to Earth's surface through a certain spot in the middle of the plate (i.e., the Pacific Plate for the Hawaiian Islands).he most common type occur at the edges of tectonic plates, the crust beneath the oceans and the continents. When one plate is pushed beneath another, it is heated by the hot mantle, a fluid rock layer beneath the crust. The rock is forced upward through cracks to form volcanoes.