Nankai Trough

Nankai Trough (南海トラフ, Nankai Torafu) is a submarine valley south of Japan's islands of Honshū and Shikoku. It is about 900 km offshore. The undersea valley runs on a line which is roughly parallel with the coast of the two Japanese islands.[1]

The yellow line is the "Suruga trough", part of the longer "Nankai trough" in red

This feature is in a marine area called Nankai.[2]

Related pages

Shikoku region

References

Steurer, J., Underwood, M, 2003, "Clay mineralogy of mudstone from the Nankai Trough reference sites 1173 and 1177 and frontal accretionary prism site 1174," Ms 190SR-211; excerpt, see Figure F1. "Index map of the Nankai Trough study area". Retrieved 2012-4-6.
"IHO-IOC GEBCO gazetter of undersea feature names," Publication B-8, January 2010, p236 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-4-8.

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[1] Steurer, J., Underwood, M, 2003, "Clay mineralogy of mudstone from the Nankai Trough reference sites 1173 and 1177 and frontal accretionary prism site 1174," Ms 190SR-211; excerpt, see Figure F1. "Index map of the Nankai Trough study area". Retrieved 2012-4-6.

[2] "IHO-IOC GEBCO gazetter of undersea feature names," Publication B-8, January 2010, p236 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-4-8.