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How are the locations of earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges related to tectonic plate boundaries?

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How are the locations of earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges related to tectonic plate boundaries?

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The theory of plate tectonics combines many of the ideas about continental drift (originally proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener in Germany) and sea-floor spreading (suggested originally by Harry Hess of Princeton University). Most Earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions happen on the boundaries. For answers to any questions you have just ChaCha again!