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Plate boundaries?

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What type of plate boundary would you use to describe the Society Islands and why?

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  1. The Society Islands are not at plate boundaries.  They are at Hot Spots on the  Many of the islands that dot the center of the Pacific Ocean are made up of active, dormant, or extinct volcanoes, whose geologic histories are characteristic of "hot spot" volcanism. The active volcanism is limited to a localized region (or "spot") of the volcanic chain. Hot-spot island chains include the Hawaiian, Marquesas, Society, Pitcairn, Samoan, and Galapagos archipelagos.

    I can't find the Society Islands on the Tectonic plates map, but I think they are on the Pacific Plate.

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