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Java Trench, deep submarine depression in the eastern Indian Ocean that extends some 2,000 miles (3,200 km) in a northwest-southeast arc along the southwestern and southern Indonesian archipelago.
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).
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 gru 2014 · Map of the Sundaland by the Early Miocene. Extension restricted to the SW of the Sunda subduction zone whereas shortening or compression is widespread in the south and the southeast. Green arrows indicate location of recorded extension and yellow arrows are for compression.
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 ...
The map reveals typical features of a subduction zone: an oceanic trench, a fore-arc ridge, a fore-arc basin, and an island arc. The location of the plate boundary is marked by the Sunda Trench, a narrow band of very deep water that parallels the Sumatran coast.
The submarine land- slide (called Bassein slide) identified around 15°N, off the region between the southern Myanmar coast and North Andaman 24 (see Figure 1 for location) should pro- vide the...
