Diagram of the eastern equatorial Pacific showing the location of the Galapagos Spreading Center and Galapagos Islands.

Diagram of the eastern equatorial Pacific showing the location of the Galapagos Spreading Center and Galapagos Islands. Deeper regions (>3500 m deep) are blue on this map. The Galapagos Spreading Center is an east-west ridge that rises above the surrounding seafloor, and is most shallow (depth ~1600 m) north of the Galapagos Islands. Image courtesy of Haymon et al., NOAA-OE, WHOI.

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