| TANG Yong,LI Mingbi,LI Jiabiao,WU Zhaocai. 2011. The geomorphological features and continuity of the Kyushu-Palau Ridge (KPR). Acta Oceanologica Sinica, (5):114－124 |
| The geomorphological features and continuity of the Kyushu-Palau Ridge (KPR) |
| The geomorphological features and continuity of the Kyushu-Palau Ridge (KPR) |
| Received:May 11, 2011 Revised:July 01, 2011 |
| DOI：10.1007/s13131-011-0136-1 |
| Key words:Kyushu-Palau Ridge (KPR) Philippine Basin Seamount chain (chain-shaped seamounts) |
| 中文关键词: Kyushu-Palau Ridge (KPR) Philippine Basin Seamount chain (chain-shaped seamounts) |
| 基金项目:973 Jointly funded by Cenozoic Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Evolution of Continental Margin of the East China Sea under contract No. 2007CB41170301; Research on Sedimentary Features and Sedimentary Filling of the Lower Slope Basin in the Deep Water Area of the Middle and Northern South China Sea of the Special Fund Program of Basic Scientific Research Expenses under contract No. JG1007; Supporting Technologies for Delimitation of Continental Shelves and Exclusive Economic Zones under contract Nos 200805078, 201205037 and 201205003. |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | TANG Yong | China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
The Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China | yty@hz.cn | | LI Mingbi | The Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China | | | LI Jiabiao | The Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China | | | WU Zhaocai | The Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China | |
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| Abstract: |
| The Philippine Basin, surrounded by a series of oceanic trenches, is an independent deep ocean basin in the West Pacific Ocean. Its middle part is divided into three marginal sea sub-basins by the Kyushu-Palau and West Mariana Ridges, namely, the West Philippine Basin, the Shikoku and Parece Vela Basins and the Mariana Trough. This paper, through the analysis of the geomorphologic features and gravity and magnetic characteristics of the basin and identification of striped magnetic anomalies, suggests that the entire Philippine Basin developed magnetic lineation of oceanic nature, and therefore, the entire basin is of the nature of oceanic crust. The basin has developed a series of special geomorphic units with different shapes. The KPR runs through the entire Philippine Basin. From the view of geomorphologic features, the KPR is a discontinuous seamount chain (chain-shaped seamounts) and subduction beneath the Japanese Island arc at the Nankai Trough which is the natural boundary between the basin and the Japanese Island arc. At the positions of 25°N, 24°N, 23°N and 18°N, obvious discontinuity is shown, which belongs to natural topographic discontinuity. Therefore, the KPR is topographically discontinuous. |
| 中文摘要: |
| The Philippine Basin, surrounded by a series of oceanic trenches, is an independent deep ocean basin in the West Pacific Ocean. Its middle part is divided into three marginal sea sub-basins by the Kyushu-Palau and West Mariana Ridges, namely, the West Philippine Basin, the Shikoku and Parece Vela Basins and the Mariana Trough. This paper, through the analysis of the geomorphologic features and gravity and magnetic characteristics of the basin and identification of striped magnetic anomalies, suggests that the entire Philippine Basin developed magnetic lineation of oceanic nature, and therefore, the entire basin is of the nature of oceanic crust. The basin has developed a series of special geomorphic units with different shapes. The KPR runs through the entire Philippine Basin. From the view of geomorphologic features, the KPR is a discontinuous seamount chain (chain-shaped seamounts) and subduction beneath the Japanese Island arc at the Nankai Trough which is the natural boundary between the basin and the Japanese Island arc. At the positions of 25°N, 24°N, 23°N and 18°N, obvious discontinuity is shown, which belongs to natural topographic discontinuity. Therefore, the KPR is topographically discontinuous. |
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