MIT solves longstanding volcanic mystery

For decades, geologists have been puzzled by the mechanisms that give rise to the kind of volcanoes that form the so-called `ring of fire` around the Pacific Ocean. These arc volcanoes, which account for about 10 to 25 percent of all volcanoes, are produced when one of the plates that make up Earth`s crust plunges beneath another plate, a process called subduction.

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