
	Where results make sense

Topic: Galapagos Rise

	Galapagos Rise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Galapagos Rise is a divergent boundary located between the South American coast and the triple junction of the Nazca Plate, the Cocos Plate, and the Pacific Plate.
		The Galapagos Microplate is a small separate plate on the rise just to the southeast of the triple junction.
		The Cocos Ridge trends northeasterly from the Galapagos to the coast of Costa Rica and Panama.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galapagos_Rise (190 words)

	Read about East Pacific Rise at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research East Pacific Rise and learn about East Pacific Rise ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The East Pacific Rise is a long north-south welt of sea floor spreading that roughly parallels the Pacific coast of South America.
		The Rise is a constructive tectonic plate margin or divergent boundary lying along the eastern margin of the Pacific Ocean basin.
		South of Easter Island the East Pacific Rise splits at another triple junction with the Chile Rise trending off to the east where is meets the subduction zone along the coast of southern Chile.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/East_Pacific_Rise (378 words)

	Nazca Plate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The southern side is a divergent boundary, the Chile Rise, with the Antarctic Plate.
		The western side is a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the East Pacific Rise.
		The northern side is a divergent boundary, the Galapagos Rise, with the Cocos Plate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nazca_Plate (279 words)

	Galapagos Tourism
		The impact of increased tourism on the Galapagos Islands is twofold: economic and environmental.
		The Galapagos' has witnessed the extinction of three of the 14 races of giant tortoises, and only a single individual remains of a fourth.
		Geographic Locations The geographic domain of this case is limited to the Galapagos Islands, an archipelago of 11 islands measuring 3,000 square miles in area, located 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/galapag.htm (3478 words)

	Buffalo Museum of Science - Biogeography and Evolution of the Galapagos
		Discovery of the 'Galapagos Gore,' a geological and topographical region with its apex at the triple junction of the Pacific, Cocos, and Pacific plates corroborated Croizat's (1958) prediction for an important tectonic structure being associated with the Galapagos.
		Molecular estimates for Galapagos taxa may be plagued with problematic calibrations that are poorly documented and often emphasize previous use in the literature as justification for the model.
		These problems suggest molecular techniques, while emphasizing the antiquity of Galapagos taxa relative to the age of the modern islands are methodologically suspect, or at the very least problematic, and do not constrain with any reliability the upper phylogenetic age of the Galapagos lineages.
	www.sciencebuff.org /biogeography_and_evolution_of_the_galapagos.php (1892 words)

	Encyclopedia: East Pacific Rise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The volcanic Galapagos Islands are located above a hot spot on the Galapagos Rise, a spreading zone that extends east from a triple junction with the Pacific Rise.
		The rise lies in part under the Gulf of California and is offset along the San Andreas Fault zone under southern California.
		The southern stretch of the East Pacific Rise is one of the fastest-spreading sections of the Earth's Ocean Ridge system.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/East-Pacific-Rise (405 words)

	Encyclopedia: Galapagos Rise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Galapagos Rise is a divergent boundary located near the triple junction of the Nazca Plate, the Cocos Plate, and the South American Plate.
		The Galapagos Microplate is a small separate plate on the rise.
		The Cocos Ridge trends northeasterly from the Galapagos microplate to the coast of Costa Rica and Panama.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Galapagos-Rise (391 words)

	20th Anniversary Celebration Cruise- Galapagos Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was in the Galapagos, in 1853, that Charles Darwin caught the first glimmer of his earth-shaking theory of evolution.
		Rising 500 feet straight from the ocean, this giant uplifted rock is shaped like sleeping lion.
		Here the Galapagos National Park Interpretive Center, opened in 1998, is an extraordinary educational resource for tourists and locals alike; 80% of is focus is on the anthropology of the Galapagos, the other 20% is scientific.
	www.rei.com /adventures/trips/latin/galapagos_20th.jsp (2806 words)

	wiki/Galapagos Fur Seal Definition / wiki/Galapagos Fur Seal Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However, the fur seals, like their close relatives the sea lions, retain some ability to walk on land as their hind limbs can be brought forward under the body to bear the animal's weight, and retain small but visible external ears....
		The Galapagos Fur Seal is the smallest of all the pinnipeds Pinnipeds are large marine mammals belonging to the Pinnipedia, a family (sometimes a suborder or superfamily, depending on the classification scheme) of the order Carnivora.
		The number of Galapagos Fur Seals successfully bred in a year is very sensitive to El NiÃ±o weather events.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Galapagos_Fur_Seal (607 words)

	Isabela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The nature trail is an ascent through the typical dry vegetation zone and offers spectacular views of Darwin Lake, a saltwater crater lake and the long narrow inlet that appears to connect with it.
		At the top of the trail it is possible to observe the different vegetation zones, as well as catch a glimpse of Darwin and Wolf Volcanoes as well as Galapagos penguins, flightless cormorants and pelicans.
		Located at the ‘mouth’ of the head of the sea horse, which forms the northern part of the islands, is Punta Vicente Roca, Here the remnants of an ancient volcano form two turquoise coves with a bay well protected from the ocean swells.
	www.yachtsgalapagos.com /galapagos/isabela.htm (531 words)

	Islands Description
		High cliffs rise up from the sea, for spectacular views of soaring birds, and the famous blowhole where water spouts from 50 to 75 feet into the air.
		Renowned for its large colonies of marine iguanas, it is also home for a number of unique Galapagos species: the flightless cormorant, penguin, sea lion and marine turtle, the harshness of the recently formed landscape of Fernandina's slopes can be appreciated by taking the trail inland to the edge of a large AA lava flow.
		To make your Galapagos experience an unforgettable close up encounter with animal life, we offer you the possibility of sea kayaks on board of some of our yachts.
	www.ecuadortoursonline.com /galapagos/islands.htm (1310 words)

	SEACUKE Case
		The controversy in the Galapagos involves the inability to sustain sea cucumber harvesting, and the removal of millions of sea cucumbers will have detrimental effects on the food chain in the waters of the Galapagos.
		The Galapagos are a chain of volcanic islands located 600 miles east of the South American continent (see GALAPAG case).
		The ban on sea cucumber fishing was imposed in August of 1992 by Ecuadoran President Bodrigo Borja to prohibit "the capture, removal, transportation and sale of sea cucumbers from the Galapagos archipelago" after studies indicated that the illegal harvesting of the sea cucumbers was seriously detrimental to the ecology of the Galapagos.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/SEACUKE.htm (2022 words)

	WHOI Marine Operations - History of Alvin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Rise area at 9 deg N had been found to be active during a late-1991 dive series, so experiments during this cruise provided an unusual temporal look at vent processes.
		Late in March, the Rise at 21 deg N was the site of geochemical sampling of hydrothermal fields, and in April scientists returned to the Rise at 10 deg N to complete experiments initiated with the French submersible Nautile in 1991.
		The final cruise for the year was to the East pacific Rise at 9 North for researchers from the University of Delaware and Harvard to conduct an analysis of microbial symbiosis and deploy an in-situ electrochemical analyzer.
	www.whoi.edu /marine/ndsf/vehicles/alvin/alvin_history.html (7954 words)

	The Earth Institute at Columbia University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The site of extensive volcanic activity and sea-floor spreading, the Galapagos Rise in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean has yielded groundbreaking research results for the field of plate tectonics.
		Jacqueline Floyd and her colleagues, all from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, are introducing a new model for the process of mid-ocean ridge propagation (lengthening), which is responsible for seafloor spreading and the consequent formation of ocean basins.
		The earthquake data show a concentration of earthquake activity at the tip of the Galapagos rise in Hess Deep that we almost immediately recognized as being similar to acoustic emission patterns observed at the tips of propagating cracks in the laboratory.
	www.earth.columbia.edu /news/2002/story12-05-02.html (691 words)

	t51b in sm99
		Bauer Basin, an oceanic basin between Galapagos Rise and Bauer Scarp (the eastward extent of spreading for the current EPR), is suggested to be the result of rapid spreading along the Galapagos Rise ridge segments.
		Age/depth relationships support a decreasing age in the Galapagos Rise ridge segments in a northward progression, suggesting that the slow spreading phase of Galapagos Rise corresponded to the opening of the current EPR in the region.
		Tightly curved (concave southward) fracture zones between Galapagos Rise ridge segments indicate a pole of rotation to the SSW if the region that was concurrent with active spreading.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=sm99&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/sm99/sm99&maxhits=200&="T51B" (3249 words)

	GALAPAGOS CRUISE- Ecuador
		The upwelling of coldwater currents in this part of the Galapagos, give rise to an abundance of marine life which, in combination with the protection of the coves, make Punta Vicente Roca one of the archipelago's sough after dive spots.
		On Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is the Interpretation Center newly opened by the Galapagos National park in 1998, which is truly an extraordinary contribution to the information and education of the islands communities and the travelers; its 80% is focus in the anthropology of the Galapagos, the 20% is scientific.
		A special cancellation policy applies to all Galapagos trips, which is stricter than the REI policy.
	www.rei.com /adventures/trips/latin/galapagos.jsp (2789 words)

	Oceanic Volcanism in the Pacific - Geokem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Galapagos Group are located on the Equator, and on or south of, the Galapagos Rise extending from the EPR towards the coast of Ecuador.
		The Galapagos are one of the six main centres of active basaltic volcanism in the world.
		Depleted, high-Mg basalts similar to those of the Galapagos Rise are well known in Iceland but true picrites are rare and found only from the Hengill area and from Theistoreykjir at the extreme northern end of the ERZ.
	www.geokem.com /volcanic-pacific.html (5821 words)

	Galapagos Rise Definition / Galapagos Rise Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Galapagos Rise is a divergent boundary located between the South American coast and the triple junctionA triple junction is the point where three tectonic plates diverge.
		The Cocos Plate is created by sea floor spreading along the East Pacific Rise, specifically in a complicated area geologists call the Cocos-Nazca spreading system.
		From the rise the plate is pushed eastward and pushed or dragged (perhaps both) under the less dense overriding Caribbean Plate in the process named subduction.
	www.elresearch.com /Galapagos_Rise (435 words)

	Galapagos
		The islands are volcanic in origin, with level shorelines and mountainous interiors culminating in high central craters, some of which rise to more than 1,520 m (5,000 ft).
		Some of the craters, surmounting the larger islands, are of immense size, and they rise to a height of between three and four thousand feet.
		This is especially the case on the windward sides of the islands, which first receive and condense the moisture from the atmosphere.
	www.oceanviewgolf.com /galapagos.htm (2354 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Fears rise for Galapagos birds
		Several unique bird species are at possible risk from the Galapagos oil spill.
		Birdlife says modern long-line fishing vessels operating off the Galapagos may also be a serious threat to the species, another scavenger, which will happily eat other birds or fish killed by the oil.
		It faces no other threats in the Galapagos, but this incident is a real threat to a bird with such tiny numbers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/sci/tech/1132585.stm (486 words)

	Jeffrey Todd Freymueller Ph.D. Dissertation Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The displacements observed in the period 1988-1990 are obtained from the results of the first two CASA (Central And South America) GPS experiments.
		With these measurements are used, to determine the convergence rates across the Colombia-Ecuador and Mid-America trenches, and the spreading rate across the Galapagos Rise.
		Spreading across the Galapagos Rise was significantly different than the motion predicted by NUVEL-1, with a difference of 40 mm/yr in the east component.
	estrella.geol.sc.edu /~agl/abstracts/freymueller2abstract.htm (501 words)

	Vents Program: East Pacific Rise, 17degS
		The eastern equatorial Pacific has been monitored by autonomous hydrophones since May, 1996 The region includes East Pacific Rise, Galapagos Ridge, Middle America and Peru-Chile trench systems, and the Easter and Juan Fernandez microplates.
		The southern East Pacific Rise (EPR) one of the fastest-spreading sections of the Earth's Mid-Ocean Ridge system.
		The 1993 expedition was aboard the R/V Melville and was primarily focused on mapping and sampling of plumes in the water column from 13.5° S to 18.5°S. In 1994, two separate expeditions were mounted aboard the R/V Yokosuka with the Shinkai 6500 submersible.
	www.pmel.noaa.gov /vents/s-epr.html (145 words)

	Day 27. The Galapagos: Another Hot Spot. October 22, 1998
		Like Hawaii, the isolation of the Galapagos has given rise to a group of plants and animals, including giant tortoises, swimming iguanas, and finches with different shaped beaks, that are found nowhere else in the world.
		There are 11 historically active volcanoes on the Galapagos Islands (Hawaii has four), although they are far smaller than the Hawaiian volcanoes.
		The Galapagos volcanoes sits next to a midoceanic ridge, so the lithosphere is much younger and thinner.
	www.punaridge.org /doc/flashes/day27/Default.htm (882 words)

	Galapagos Islands Tours - M.V. Evolution Itinerary - LARC Travel
		On a trail leading to the western tip of the island you'll pass the only nesting sites in the Galapagos of the waved albatross, huge birds with a 6-foot wingspan.
		Isabela, the largest of the Galapagos islands, looks a bit like a sea horse facing toward the west.
		On the trail going inland it is possible to see colorful land iguanas and even Galapagos tortoises during the very wet season.
	www.larc1.com /galapagos/evolution/evolution-itinerary.html (1613 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, 50 Years of Ocean Discovery: National Science Foundation 1950-2000 (2000)
		Clearly, the faster spreading rates associated with the East Pacific Rise and Galapagos Rift are commonly characterized by high volumes of sheet flows that flood large areas of the inner rift valley.
		Prior to an eruptive cycle along a given spreading segment of the rift axis, the older lava terrain is characterized by a complex and dense network of fissures that are thoroughly permeated with seawater.
		During our 1977 and 1979 expeditions to the Galapagos Rift, we had discovered that the active hydrothermal vents lay along a straight line apparently associated with the eruptive fissure responsible for the youngest flows within the rift valley.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309063981/html/79.html (1618 words)

	Global Adrenaline : HBS Alumni Association: Galapagos Explorer
		Join other HBS alumni on an exclusively chartered yacht on the HBS Galapagos Explorer expedition for an up-close view of the unique and varied bird life and marine life of the Galapagos Islands, an historic archipelago located far off the Ecuadorian coast in the South Pacific Ocean.
		The Galapagos Islands have a subtropical climate regulated by the cold Humboldt current and the warm El NiÃ±o current.
		Galapagos National Park rules are very strict and a way to keep the Islands intact for your enjoyment and that of future generations.
	www.globaladrenaline.com /hbs/galapagos2005 (3882 words)

	PUBLICATIONS RESULTING FROM STUDY OF SIO GEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
		Chemical and isotopic diversity in basalts dredged from the East Pacific Rise at 10°S, the fossil Galapagos Rise and the Nazca Plate.
		Petrology and chemistry of basalts from the East Pacific Rise and the Siqueiros transform fault.
		L., Mudie, J. and Sclater, J. The Galapagos spreading centre: bottom-water temperatures and the significance of geothermal heating.
	gc.ucsd.edu /data/AllPubsABS.html (9379 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)