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4.6 How does magma generation connect to plate tectonics?

• So just where do melting conditions occur?
• One: areas of decompression due to rising rock
• Mid-ocean ridges
• Hotspots
• Convergent boundaries
• Addition of water as wet ocean crust is subducted

Fig 4.21