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Southeast Farallon Islands (from nautical chart of 1957) A Fata Morgana mirage of the Farallon Islands, as viewed from San Francisco. The Farallon Islands / f æ r ə l ɔː n / FA-ra-lon, [2] or Farallones (from Spanish farallón 'pillar, sea cliff'), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States.
Bathymetric map of area around the Galápagos microplate with main tectonic features marked. The 13,000 km 2 Galápagos microplate lies at the western end of the GSC. It is bounded to the west by strands of the East Pacific Rise, to the southeast by the Dietz Volcanic Ridge and the Dietz Deep rift, and to the north by the GSC. [4]
These currents cool the islands and provide the perfect environment for the wildlife there. The islands are volcanic in origin and were never attached to any continent. Galápagos wildlife arrived by flying, floating or swimming. Birds might have flown there by accident and decided to settle there due to favourable conditions.
San Francisco National Cemetery; Sutro District, including Cliff House; Sutro Baths; Sutro Heights Park; San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, including Aquatic Park; Hyde Street Pier; United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Farallon National Wildlife Refuge; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Without tourism on the Galapagos Islands, animals are free to inhabit the once human-occupied spaces. Researchers discover that wildlife is reclaiming the Galapagos after tourism stalls Skip to ...
Santiago Galapagos mouse, (Nesoryzomys swarthi) Fernandina rice rat, (Nesoryzomys fernandinae) Nesoryzomys swarthi; Darwin's Galapagos mouse,(Nesoryzomys darwini) Indefatigable Galapagos mouse,(Nesoryzomys indefessus) Galapagos giant rat,(Megaoryzomys curioi)
The Galapagos hotspot has a very complicated tectonic setting. It is located very close to the spreading ridge between the Cocos and Nazca plates; the hotspot interacts with both plates and the spreading ridge over the last twenty million years as the relative location of the hotspot in relation to the plates has varied.
The devastating El Niño of 1982–83 saw almost six times as much rain as normal in the Galapagos and created a wildlife catastrophe. [91] The 1997–98 El Niño adversely affected wildlife in the waters surrounding the islands, as the waters were 5 °C (9 °F) warmer than normal.