Formation of the Galapagos Microplate and its Effect on Rifting at the Galapagos Triple Junction

Deborah K Smith1, Hans Schouten2, Emily M Klein3, Benjamin W Wernette3, Ross Parnell-Turner4, Johnson R Cann5 and Tingting Zheng6, (1)National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (5)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, China