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The Philippine Trench, in the middle of the picture. The Philippine Trench (also called the Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and the Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. The trench is located in the Philippine sea of the western North Pacific Ocean and continues NNW-SSE. [1]
The Philippine archipelago, Ryukyu Islands, and the Marianas are examples. Another prominent feature of the Philippine Sea is the presence of deep sea trenches, among them the Philippine Trench and the Mariana Trench, containing the deepest point on the planet.
The Emden Deep, also known as the Galathea Deep or Galathea Depth, is the portion of the 10,540-metre-deep (34,580 ft) Philippine Trench exceeding 6,000-metre (20,000 ft) depths in the south-western Pacific Ocean. Discoverer ship Emden
The Philippine propagates northwards in the segment of East Luzon Trench. [14] [24] [23] The age of the Philippine Trench is not well-defined; estimates range from 5 Ma or younger, [28] [1] to 8–9 Ma. [29] [22] However, researchers agree that the Philippine Trench is the youngest trench in the Philippine subduction system. [19] [30] [6] [1]
Leyte Gulf, also known simply as the Leyte, is a gulf in the Eastern Visayan region in the Philippines. The bay is part of the Philippine Sea of the Pacific Ocean, and is bounded by two islands; Samar in the north and Leyte in the west. On the south of the bay is Mindanao Island, separated from Leyte by the Surigao Strait.
The Manila Trench near western Luzon and Mindoro, the Philippine Trench in the east, and the Philippine Mobile Belt. The Manila Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean, located west of the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines.
Victor Vescovo's Caladan Oceanic initiated an expedition to the Emden Deep, the deepest point in the Philippine Trench and third deepest in the world. Deo Florence Onda was invited to join Vescovo in the expedition's descent to the Emden Deep which would make Onda, the first Filipino to make a descent to the deep.
The Cotabato Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean, off the southwestern coast of Mindanao in the Philippines.Along this trench the oceanic crust of the Sunda Plate beneath the Celebes Sea is being subducted beneath the Philippines Mobile Belt.