What forms underwater volcanoes?

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Underwater volcanoes are formed at 'hot spots' in the Earth's mantle, as in the Hawaiian Island chain, or in deep sea trenches, where oceanic crust is subducting under oceanic crust, melting when it reaches the mantle, then erupting as a volcano.

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