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Download scientific diagram | A regional map showing the Sunda trench, the Sumatran Fault System (SFS) and the Sagaing fault, which between them absorb the convergence of the India-Australia...
The trench stretches from the Lesser Sunda Islands past Java, around the southern coast of Sumatra to the Andaman Islands, and forms the boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and Eurasian Plate (more specifically, Sunda Plate).
1 paź 2019 · The Java Trench, also known as the Sunda Trench, is located south and west of the islands of Java and Sumatra in the eastern Indian Ocean, and is in excess of 3200 km in length. The trench is formed as the Indo-Australian Plate subducts beneath the Eurasian Plate, at a rate of between 60 and 73 mm per year ( De Mets et al., 2010 ).
Regional map of Sumatra subduction zone and rupture areas of past great earthquakes [13]. Red line is the inter-plate thrust that intersects the sea floor along the Sunda Trench. Light yellow...
The study is focused on the Sunda Trench (also earlier called Java Trench), the deepest oceanic depression of the Indian Ocean, stretching 4–5 km parallel to the Sunda Island Arc, along its foot (Becker et al., 2009).
A Map of the Sunda Trench, showing the position of Anak Krakatau at an inflection point in the subduction of the Indo-Australian plate beneath Eurasia.
It is interpreted as Australian and Indian plate lithosphere that is actively subducting northward below Sundaland, along the Sumatra and Java trenches. To the northwest it is disconnected through a slab window below the Andaman Islands from the Burma slab.In the East it connects to the Banda slab. In the west, tomographic images show that the ...
