Galapagos Triple Junction
The Galapagos Triple Junction is a geological area in the eastern Pacific Ocean several hundred miles west of the Galapagos Islands where three tectonic plates - the Cocos Plate, the Nazca Plate and the Pacific Plate - meet. It is an unusual type of triple junction in which the three plates do not meet at a simple intersection. Instead, the junction includes two small microplates, the Galapagos Microplate and the Northern Galapagos Microplate, caught in the junction, and turning synchronously with respect to each other.
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Galapagos Triple Junction
The Galapagos Triple Junction is a geological area in the eastern Pacific Ocean several hundred miles west of the Galapagos Islands where three tectonic plates - the Cocos Plate, the Nazca Plate and the Pacific Plate - meet. It is an unusual type of triple junction in which the three plates do not meet at a simple intersection. Instead, the junction includes two small microplates, the Galapagos Microplate and the Northern Galapagos Microplate, caught in the junction, and turning synchronously with respect to each other.
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La jonction triple des Galápag ...... éologie Portail de la géologie
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The Galapagos Triple Junction ...... ly with respect to each other.
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Węzeł potrójny Galapagos to wę ...... alapagos i Północna Galapagos.
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La jonction triple des Galápag ...... éologie Portail de la géologie
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The Galapagos Triple Junction ...... ly with respect to each other.
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Węzeł potrójny Galapagos to wę ...... alapagos i Północna Galapagos.
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Galapagos Triple Junction
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Jonction triple des Galápagos
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Węzeł potrójny Galapagos
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