Cocos Island: Tectonic-magmatic setting
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Cocos Island: Tectonic-magmatic setting
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This setting is located on an intraplate margin, more specifically in the middle of the Cocos plate, in the Pacific Ocean. The plate was created by sea floor spreading along the East Pacific Rise and the Cocos Ridge. The northern boundary of the plate is the middle America Trench. The eastern boundary is the Panama fracture zone, which is a transform fault setting. The southern boundary of the Cocos plate is and oceanic spreading ridge called the Galapagos Rise. The western boundary is another oceanic ridge called the East Pacific Rise, in the Pacific Ocean. Overall the Cocos plate is moving north-eastward and subducting under the Carribean plate, which is due to the Carribean plate being older and denser.
