Located in one of the most active volcanic regions on earth, the Galapagos are

located on the Nazca Plate, close to its junction with the Cocos Plate.

As are of the spreading of the sea floor (the movement of the

plates in relation to each other) along the Galapagos Rift and the

East Pacific Rise, the islands are moving south and eastward at a

rate of more than 7 cm/yr., which may not seem fast but would,

over a million years or so, amount to 70 km of movement!

The evidence that the plate on which the islands sit is moving

eastward is that the oldest islands are in the eastern part of the

There is also volcanic activity where the west

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