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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. It is located about 190 miles (305 km) off the southwestern coasts of the islands of Sumatra and Java,
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 ).
1 gru 2014 · Map of the eastern part of Sundaland with the South China Sea and adjacent basins. Green is for oceanic crust, blue and yellow represent areas with stretched continental crust. The continental crust has been stretched during the Early Tertiary forming some E–W faults and mostly N–S faults and basins (Thailand, Malay and Mergui basins).
Yet there were deep water trenches that always separated what are referred to by biogeographers as Sunda (old continental Southeast Asia) and Sahul (greater Australia). Just east of Bali, which formed the far southeastern tip of Asia at its greatest extent, and west of Lombok in the archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands, running north to ...
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).
The western and southern borders of Sundaland are clearly marked by the deeper waters of the Sunda Trench – some of the deepest in the world – and the Indian Ocean. [4]
