Philippine Trench

Philippine Trench

The Philippine Trench (also Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. It has a length of approximately 1,320 km and a width of about 30 km from the centre of the Philippine island of Luzon trending southeast to the northern Maluku island of Halmahera in Indonesia. Its deepest point, the Galathea Depth, has a depth of 10,540 metres (5763 fathoms or 34,580 feet). Before 1951, when an expedition of HMS Challenger measured a depth of 10,863 metres in the Mariana Trench, the Galathea Depth was the greatest known ocean depth.[1]. Now, it's the deepest point in the country and the 3rd in the world.

Immediately to the north of the Philippine Trench is the East Luzon Trench. They are separated, with their continuity interrupted and displaced, by Benham Plateau on the Philippine Sea Plate. [2]

The Philippine Trench is the result of a collision of tectonic plates. The Philippine Sea Plate is subducting under the Philippine Mobile Belt at the rate of about 16 cm per year.

References

  1. ^ Bruun, A. F. , et al. (1956). The Galathea Deep Sea Expedition, 1950–52.. London: Allen and Unwin. p. 35.
  2. ^ Deschamps and Lallemand (2003) in Intra-Oceanic Subduction Systems: Tectonic and Magmatic Processes ISBN 1862391475 p165
v · d · eTectonic plates of East Asia (Eurasian Plate-Pacific Plate Convergence Zone)
Large
Amur Plate · Okhotsk Plate · Philippine Sea Plate · Yangtze Plate
Small
Mariana Plate · Okinawa Plate · Philippine Mobile Belt
Faults and rift zones
Baikal Rift Zone · Fukozu Fault · Idosawa Fault · Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line · Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc · Izu Convergence Zone · Japan Median Tectonic Line · Longmenshan Fault · Neodani Fault · Nojima Fault · Northeastern Japan Arc · Philippine Fault System · Senya Fault · Tanna Fault · Ulakhan Fault
Trenches and troughs
Kuril Trench · Mariana Trench · Japan · Izu-Ogasawara Trench · Japan Trench · Nankai Trough · Sagami Trough · Suruga Trough · Okinawa Trough · Ryukyu Trench · Philippines: · North Luzon Trough · West Luzon Trough · Manila Trench · Philippine Trench · Cotabato Trench · East Luzon Trench · Sulu Trench · Negros Trench · Palawan Trench ·
Other
Boso Triple Junction
v · Tectonic plates of Southeast Asia-New Guinea (Australian Plate-Pacific Plate Convergence Zone)
Large
Sunda Plate · Philippine Sea Plate · Caroline Plate
Small
West: Burma Plate · Philippines: Philippine Mobile Belt · Indonesia: Banda Sea Plate · Molucca Sea Collision Zone · Bird's Head Plate · Halmahera Plate · Sangihe Plate · Timor Plate · New Guinea: Maoke Plate · Woodlark Plate · North Bismarck Plate · South Bismarck Plate · Manus Plate · Solomon Sea Plate
Faults
Philippine Fault System · Sorong Fault · Ramu-Markham Fault · Great Sumatran fault · New Britain Subduction Zone
Trenches and troughs
Java Trench (Sunda) with Mentawai Trough · Sunda Trough · Timor Trough · Philippines: North Luzon Trough · Manila Trench · Philippine Trench · Cotabato Trench · East Luzon Trench · Sulu Trench · Negros Trench · Palawan Trench · Moluccas: Banda Trench · Ceram Trough · Ternate Trough · Talaud Trough · Sangihe Trough · Salajar Trough · Ayu Trough · West Caroline Trough · Timor: Aur Trough · Tanimbar Trough · New Guinea: Kilinailai Trench · Manus Trench · New Guinea Trench · Manokwari Trough · West Melanesian Trench · Lyra Trough · Mussau Trench · New Britain Trench (Bougainville) · Pocklington Trough
Subsea plateaus and basins
Benham Plateau · Weber Basin · North Australian Basin


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