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Why do volcanic mountain chains, such as the Andes, accompany deep trenches like the Nasca Trench off South America?
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When plate tectonics causes a denser oceanic plate beneath a moving continent, the basalt sinks down into a deep trench, but the heat of subduction causes molten magma to rise up under the edge of the continent, creating volcanoes.
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