Geology of the Galapagos Islands

Introduction In 1835, Charles Darwin first entered the island of the Hague Beagle's Galapagos Islands, and before and after it gained the most important innovation inspiration in biological science. This visit strengthens his vision of the evolution of life on the planet, helps him open a breakthrough in natural selection, finally achieves its peak in his pioneering masterpiece "Origen" through natural selection I will.

When Darwin was in Lima before Beagle sailed to the Galapagos, he wrote to his sister: "I am very concerned about the Galapagos Islands, I said that geology and zoology are not that funny think". His cousin WD Fox wrote: "I expect that the Galapagos is more interested than any other voyage," said Darwin, letter to Caroline, July 1835, Volume 1, p. 456) They are full of lively volcanoes, I think that it contains the third layer, the main concern of Darwin is that the crater of the active volcano, a young geologist like the Darwin of the 1930s, There was a study on lava flow, it is an important departure.

When Charles Darwin first saw the Galapagos Islands, he expressed them as "the 10 islands under the equator". He pointed out that they began with volcanoes and filled with craters. "Some craters have transcended the larger islands, they are very big and their heights are between 3 and 4000 feet." Darwin writes that "cactus finch" may appear frequently . When they saw his notes "There are diversity of parrots and other structures in closely related finches, they may think that seeds are caught and changed for different purposes I do not. "

There are no sacred islands in the world than biologists and naturalist in the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos islands have finally completed the theory of evolution when Charles Darwin studied the unique wildlife on the island. Each island's species is more professional than the next species. In this natural history, there is a beast - a goat in a human paradise. No matter how many people have guns, some goats always climb higher, avoiding hunting, simply deleting the island's invading goat to simply play the island fails did.