Multiple Choice
Which tectonic plate setting is associated with the following features: volcanic eruptions; magma rises from deep in the mantle; can produce a chain of extinct volcanoes with increasing distance from the active volcano? Yellowstone National Park and Hawaiian islands are geographic examples.
A) divergent plate boundary
B) convergent plate boundary (subduction zone)
C) convergent plate boundary (collision zone)
D) transform plate boundary
E) hotspot
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