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  • Britain has a very lively volcanic history. Its volcanic period mainly extended from the Late Jurassic into the Early Cretaceous, peaking in the Aptian stage, about 113-119 million years ago. The landscape of Britain is dotted with long extinct volcanoes. The Scottish capital Edinburgh is built on an extinct volcano called Arthur's Seat. The mountains of north Wales are the remains of a huge volcanic plateau and there are volcanic rocks distributed throughout the British Isles. Even some of the Chalk of Southern England is now considered to be volcanic ash deposits. Britain is not likely to become actively volcanic in the near future, as Britain is now far from the continental margins and rifts, locations where volcanoes are common. The tectonics of the region will have to change before lava starts pouring across the landscape again. http://www.geologyshop.co.uk/ukvolc.htm http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/grp7/europe/question1759.html
  • Hi all i live half a mile away for arthur`s seat and i see the bgs running around nearly every month i tend to speak them now and again and they tell me that we don`t have to be near continental margins and rifts for volcanos to erupt again in the uk it only takes silly like things for them to come back to life again but they told me that arthur`s seat was one big a** volcano that took up half of edinburgh scary.
  • I think because Britain is not on any tectonic plate boundaries. It's impossible to have volcanoes (which are basically channels for the lava to come up from the mantel of the earth to the surface) if there is no passage for the lava.
  • close proximity to plate boundaries is required for volcanoes to occur (the type of boundary determines the type of volcano) and I'm not sure of your reasons for asking the question, but it's a bloody good job we don't get volcanoes in Britain. volcanoes are literally the most destructive thing on earth. just for a little comparison: lets say the atom bomb has a destructive value of 10 -Mount Vesuvius (Europe's last mainland active volcano) would have in comparison a destructive value of about 1'000'000 and i am honestly not exaggerating

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