Yapgraben
Tectonic plates with continents in the background
The Yapgraben is a deep sea channel up to 8850 m deep and 560 km long in the western part of the Pacific Ocean (Pacific).
geography
It is located roughly between the Philippines Basin in the north, the Mariana Trench in the northeast, the Carolines in the east, the West Carolina Basin in the south, the Palau Trench in the southwest and the Yap Islands in the west. There it lies between 8 and 11 ° north latitude and 138 and 139 ° east longitude .
Coordinates: 10 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 138 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E
geology
The Yap Trench forms the southeastern part of the deeply incised seam between the Philippine plate in the west and the Pacific plate in the east.
literature
- Kazuo Kobayashi: Origin of the Palau and Yap trench-arc systems In: Geophysical Journal International , Volume 157, No. 3, 2004, ISSN 0956-540X , pp. 1303-1315 ( https://doi.org/10.1111/j .1365-246X.2003.02244.x ).
- Liu Xuehai, Liu Yongzhi, Cao Wei, Sun Chengjun: Water characteristics of abyssal and hadal zones in the southern Yap Trench observed with the submersible Jiaolong In: Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology , No. 06, 2019, ISSN 0254-4059 , p . 1–13 ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-019-8368-6 ).