The Galápagos spreading centre or Galápagos spreading center is a divergent boundary that forms the western part of the Cocos–Nazca spreading centre between the Cocos and Nazca plates. It extends for over 1800 km from close to the eastern boundary of the Pacific plate, the East Pacific Rise, to the west, to the Inca Fracture Zone to the east. It consists of two main ridge segments linked by the Galápagos Transform.[1][2]
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