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How do divergent plate boundaries create shield volcanoes and ridges?

April 26, 2017boundaries create divergent earth Geology Mathematics plate sciences

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How do divergent plate boundaries create shield volcanoes and ridges?

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I’m pretty sure they don’t form shield volcanoes…only ridges. And divergent plate boundaries form ridges because the plates are moving away from one another…if that doesn’t help you read this: “tectonic plates move apart along a divergent boundary as magma rises from the Earth’s mantle.