Palawan Trough

E824628

The Palawan Trough is a deep marine basin in the western Philippines associated with the complex tectonic interactions and subsidence along the margin of the Palawan region.

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Palawan Trough canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf marine basin
oceanic trough
associatedWith Eurasian Plate NERFINISHED
Palawan margin NERFINISHED
Philippine Mobile Belt NERFINISHED
Philippine Sea Plate NERFINISHED
boundedBy Dangerous Ground region of the South China Sea to the west
Palawan Island to the east
countryExclusiveEconomicZone Philippines NERFINISHED
formedBy tectonic subsidence
geologicalAge Cenozoic
hasSedimentaryFill thick Cenozoic sediments
locatedIn Philippine Sea region NERFINISHED
Southeast Asia
western Philippines NERFINISHED
locatedInBodyOfWater South China Sea NERFINISHED
locatedOffCoastOf Palawan NERFINISHED
minimumDepth_m >4000
near North Palawan Block NERFINISHED
Sulu Sea NERFINISHED
orientation generally northeast–southwest
partOf South China Sea basin system NERFINISHED
western Philippine margin
process crustal thinning
flexural bending of the lithosphere
researchField marine geology
plate tectonics
seafloorType deep marine basin floor
significance important for understanding South China Sea evolution
records interaction between Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates
tectonicSetting marginal basin
subduction-related basin

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