continental volcanic arcs are associated with the
Because the subduction zone (which is also the plate boundary) is generally an arc-shape, geologists named those volcanoes volcanic arcs. A volcanic arc built on continental crust is called a continental arc; when built on oceanic crust the volcanoes form an island arc. Volcanic arcs are made of an arc-shaped chain of volcanoes. 2  The position of which could be continental or mid-ocean. 3  While an island arc must be offshore and does not necessarily be volcanic (e.g. Hellenic arc).
Volcanic arcs form at plate subduction zones. Island arcs are volcanic islands that form over hot spots in the Earth's mantle. Because the islands are moving with the â¦ oceanic plate, they eventually are removed from the hot spot, forming a chain of islands in the direction of the plate movement.Answered.olcanic arc along continental boundaries. Example would be the ring of fire which surrounds the pacific ocean along continental plates.