Sea-Floor Spreading near the Galapagos
- 10 November 1967
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 158 (3802) , 775-780
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.158.3802.775
Abstract
Seismicity, volcanism, and a linear pattern of very large magnetic anomalies that show symmetry about a broad negative anomaly suggest that a type of sea-floor spreading occurs near the Galapagos Islands in the east-equatorial Pacific. This spreading results from the tensile stresses generated by different spreading directions of two adjacent segments of the East Pacific Rise, and it is suggested that the area be called the Galapagos Rift Zone.Keywords
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