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]

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.

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