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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/PhilippineMobileBelt007.jpg/600px-PhilippineMobileBelt007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1421" data-file-height="2069" /></a><figcaption>Major physiographic elements of the Philippine Mobile Belt</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Puerto_Princesa_Subterranean_River_National_Park_geologic_marker.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Puerto_Princesa_Subterranean_River_National_Park_geologic_marker.jpg/300px-Puerto_Princesa_Subterranean_River_National_Park_geologic_marker.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Puerto_Princesa_Subterranean_River_National_Park_geologic_marker.jpg/450px-Puerto_Princesa_Subterranean_River_National_Park_geologic_marker.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Puerto_Princesa_Subterranean_River_National_Park_geologic_marker.jpg/600px-Puerto_Princesa_Subterranean_River_National_Park_geologic_marker.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park marker describing the geologic history of the Philippines</figcaption></figure> <p>In the geology of the Philippines, the <b>Philippine Mobile Belt</b> is a complex portion of the tectonic boundary between the <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_plate" title="Eurasian plate">Eurasian plate</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Sea_plate" title="Philippine Sea plate">Philippine Sea plate</a>, comprising most of the country of the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>. It includes two subduction zones, the <a href="/wiki/Manila_Trench" title="Manila Trench">Manila Trench</a> to the west and the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Trench" title="Philippine Trench">Philippine Trench</a> to the east, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_fault_system" title="Philippine fault system">Philippine fault system</a>. Within the Belt, a number of <a href="/wiki/Crustal_block" class="mw-redirect" title="Crustal block">crustal blocks</a> or microplates which have been shorn off the adjoining major plates are undergoing massive deformation.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most segments of the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, including northern <a href="/wiki/Luzon" title="Luzon">Luzon</a>, are part of the Philippine Mobile Belt, which is bounded by the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Sea_plate" title="Philippine Sea plate">Philippine Sea plate</a> to the east, the <a href="/wiki/Molucca_Sea_Collision_Zone" title="Molucca Sea Collision Zone">Molucca Sea Collision Zone</a> to the south, <a href="/wiki/Sunda_plate" title="Sunda plate">Sunda plate</a> to the southwest, and the <a href="/wiki/Tectonics_of_the_South_China_Sea" title="Tectonics of the South China Sea">South China Sea Basin</a> to the west and north-west.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To the north it ends in eastern <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, the zone of active collision between the <a href="/wiki/North_Luzon_Trough" title="North Luzon Trough">North Luzon Trough</a> portion of the <a href="/wiki/Luzon_Volcanic_Arc" title="Luzon Volcanic Arc">Luzon Volcanic Arc</a> and South China.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Philippine Mobile Belt has also been called the <b>Philippine Microplate</b><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <b>Taiwan–Luzon–Mindoro Belt</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Palawan_and_Sulu">Palawan and Sulu</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Palawan and Sulu"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Palawan" title="Palawan">Palawan</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Calamian_Islands" title="Calamian Islands">Calamian Islands</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sulu_Archipelago" title="Sulu Archipelago">Sulu Archipelago</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_Peninsula" title="Zamboanga Peninsula">Zamboanga Peninsula</a> of western <a href="/wiki/Mindanao" title="Mindanao">Mindanao</a> are the tops of two protruding north-eastern arms of the <a href="/wiki/Sunda_plate" title="Sunda plate">Sunda plate</a>. They are not part of the Philippine Mobile Belt but are in collision with it. The <a href="/wiki/Sulu_Trench" title="Sulu Trench">Sulu Trench</a> marks the boundary of the Sulu micro-block with the Sulu Sea basin and the Palawan micro-block. The inactive <a href="/w/index.php?title=Palawan_Trench&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Palawan Trench (page does not exist)">Palawan Trench</a> marks the subduction boundary between the Palawan microblock and the <a href="/wiki/Spratly_Islands" title="Spratly Islands">Spratly Islands</a> plateau of the South China Sea basin.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Palawan/Calamian arm was also known in 1981 as the Palawan block and Palawan microcontinent,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1989 as the Palawan Micro-Block.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries">Boundaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Philippine Mobile Belt is bounded on the west by the <a href="/wiki/Manila_Trench" title="Manila Trench">Manila Trench</a> and its associates the <a href="/wiki/Negros_Trench" title="Negros Trench">Negros Trench</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_Trench" title="Cotabato Trench">Cotabato Trench</a>, which subducts the <a href="/wiki/Sunda_plate" title="Sunda plate">Sunda plate</a> under the Philippine Mobile Belt. To the east is the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Trench" title="Philippine Trench">Philippine Trench</a> and its northern associate, the <a href="/wiki/East_Luzon_Trench" class="mw-redirect" title="East Luzon Trench">East Luzon Trench</a> which subducts <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Sea_plate" title="Philippine Sea plate">Philippine Sea plate</a> the Philippine Mobile Belt.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The continuity of the Philippine-East Luzon Trench is interrupted and displaced by <a href="/wiki/Benham_Plateau" class="mw-redirect" title="Benham Plateau">Benham Plateau</a> on the Philippine Sea plate,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which collided and is still colliding with the <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Madre_(Philippines)" title="Sierra Madre (Philippines)">Sierra Madre</a> of eastern Luzon.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To the north the Philippine Mobile Belt ends in Taiwan, where <a href="/wiki/Accretion_(geology)" title="Accretion (geology)">accreted</a> portions of the Luzon Arc and Luzon forearc form the eastern <a href="/wiki/Haian_Range" class="mw-redirect" title="Haian Range">Coastal Range</a> and the inland <a href="/wiki/Huatung_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Huatung Valley">Longitudinal Valley</a> of Taiwan, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To the south the Philippine Mobile Belt terminates in the <a href="/wiki/Molucca_Sea_Collision_Zone" title="Molucca Sea Collision Zone">Molucca Sea Collision Zone</a>, which is itself part of the elongated zone of convergence extending north through the Philippines into Taiwan. Within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone, the <a href="/wiki/Molucca_Sea_plate" title="Molucca Sea plate">Molucca Sea plate</a> has been totally subsumed by the arc-arc collision of the <a href="/wiki/Halmahera_Arc" title="Halmahera Arc">Halmahera Arc</a> and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sangihe_Arc&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sangihe Arc (page does not exist)">Sangihe Arc</a> of eastern Indonesia.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regional_geology">Regional geology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Regional geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The belt's <a href="/wiki/Basement_rock" class="mw-redirect" title="Basement rock">basement rock</a> complex consists of oceanic crust from the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Sea_plate" title="Philippine Sea plate">Philippine Sea plate</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Ophiolite" title="Ophiolite">ophiolites</a> in North Luzon, or continental crust from the <a href="/wiki/Sunda_plate" title="Sunda plate">Sunda plate</a>. On top of which are <a href="/wiki/Cretaceous" title="Cretaceous">Cretaceous</a> to <a href="/wiki/Quaternary" title="Quaternary">Quaternary</a> magmatic arcs. These magmatic arcs are exposed in the western <a href="/wiki/Central_Cordillera_(Luzon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Cordillera (Luzon)">Central Cordillera</a>, and the northern <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Madre_(Philippines)" title="Sierra Madre (Philippines)">Sierra Madre</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Cagayan_River" title="Cagayan River">Cagayan River</a> Basin is an intra-arc <a href="/wiki/Rift" title="Rift">rift</a>. Subduction of <a href="/wiki/Late_Oligocene" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Oligocene">Late Oligocene</a> to <a href="/wiki/Early_Miocene" title="Early Miocene">Early Miocene</a> South China sea oceanic crust occurs at the Manila Trench. Subduction of <a href="/wiki/Eocene" title="Eocene">Eocene</a> Philippine Sea oceanic crust occurs at the <a href="/wiki/East_Luzon_Trough" title="East Luzon Trough">East Luzon Trough</a> – <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Trench" title="Philippine Trench">Philippine Trench</a> system. The <a href="/wiki/Strike-slip" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike-slip">strike-slip</a>, <a href="/wiki/Left_lateral_fault" class="mw-redirect" title="Left lateral fault">left lateral fault</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philippine_fault_system" title="Philippine fault system">Philippine fault system</a> is associated with the northward movement of the belt.<sup id="cite_ref-Polve_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Polve-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collision_zones">Collision zones</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Collision zones"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Taiwan: Continent-Arc Collision</i> – 400 km-long island dominated by mountain ranges. Represents an active orogenic belt resulting from the collision of the western edge of the Philippine Sea plate where the Luzon arc has developed, with the continental margin of Eurasia. Start of collision is associated with the kinematic reorganization of the Philippine Sea plate 4 Ma (<a href="/wiki/Pliocene" title="Pliocene">Pliocene</a>) involving a change in the direction of its movement from a northerly to a northwesterly motion.</li> <li><i>Mindoro-Panay: <a href="/wiki/Arc-Continent" class="mw-redirect" title="Arc-Continent">Arc-Continent</a> Collision</i> – Southern termination of the Manila Trench. North Palawan Block enters into collision with the central portion of the Philippine Mobile Belt within <a href="/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a> times after cessation of the accretion of South China Sea oceanic crust between 32 and 17 Ma (<a href="/wiki/Oligocene" title="Oligocene">Oligocene</a> – Miocene).</li> <li><i>Moluccas Sea: Arc-Arc Collision</i> – South of Mindanao Island in the Moluccas Sea. Subducting into 2 directions: to the East and to the West. This double-vergent subduction causes consequently the convergence/collision of the 2 corresponding active volcanic arcs. Start of collision in Upper Miocene. Corresponding arcs, the Sangihe and Halmahera, are presently separated by at least 100 km.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Luzon">Luzon</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Luzon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The island of Luzon is bisected by the braided N–S trending <a href="/wiki/Philippine_fault_system" title="Philippine fault system">Philippine fault system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Luzon is not bisected E-W, and illustrations showing anything similar are erroneous. Northern Luzon is integral with southern Luzon. Any suggestion that Northern Luzon is not part of the Philippine Mobile Belt is not borne out by the detailed fault mapping of Pinet and Stephan (1989),<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and others. A common tectonic plate illustration for the Philippines<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is incorrect in this regard. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Collage_of_17_principal_blocks">Collage of 17 principal blocks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Collage of 17 principal blocks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The composition of the Philippine Mobile Belt is generally interpreted as a collage of a large variety of blocks or terrane of diverse origin amalgamated before collision with the Eurasian margin.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seven principal blocks have been identified in Luzon: the Sierra Madre Oriental, Angat, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zambales_Ophiolite&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zambales Ophiolite (page does not exist)">Zambales</a>, Central Cordillera of Luzon, Bicol and Catanduanes Island blocks. In the Central Philippines four principal blocks have been identified: Panay, Mindoro, Cebu and Bohol. In Mindanao six principal blocks have been identified: Pacific Cordillera, Surigao, Pujada peninsular, Central Cordillera of Mindanao, Daguma range and Zamboanga.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Well-known_micro-continental_blocks">Well-known micro-continental blocks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Well-known micro-continental blocks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_Palawan_Block" title="North Palawan Block">North Palawan Block</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mindoro_Block" title="Mindoro Block">Mindoro Block</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Magmatic_arcs">Magmatic arcs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Magmatic arcs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancient_arcs">Ancient arcs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Ancient arcs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Luzon, the Middle <a href="/wiki/Oligocene" title="Oligocene">Oligocene</a> to <a href="/wiki/Late_Miocene" title="Late Miocene">Late Miocene</a> age of the arc is well constrained stratigraphically as well as radiometrically. Most of the <a href="/wiki/Intrusive_rock" title="Intrusive rock">intrusive rocks</a> are <a href="/wiki/Diorite" title="Diorite">dioritic</a> in composition, although <a href="/wiki/Alkali" title="Alkali">alkali</a> rocks also occur. In the Central Cordillera of Luzon, intrusive rocks include <a href="/wiki/Paleogene" title="Paleogene">Paleogene</a> rocks related to an ancient arc and <a href="/wiki/Neogene" title="Neogene">Neogene</a> intrusive and volcanic rocks related to eastward subduction from the Manila Trench. </p><p>In Visayas, oldest known magmatic rocks in the Philippines are found in Cebu Island, where dioritic rocks have been dated at <a href="/wiki/Lower_Cretaceous" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower Cretaceous">Lower Cretaceous</a> (Walther and others, 1981), similar rocks have been recognized in neighboring Bohol Island. </p><p>In Mindanao, interpretation of the age of these rocks is further complicated by their petrographic diversity. Sajona and others (1993) analyzed Pliocene-Pleistocene <a href="/wiki/Adakite" title="Adakite">adakitic</a> rocks in Zamboanga Peninsula and mention a possible association with activity along the Philippine Fault in <a href="/wiki/Surigao_City" title="Surigao City">Surigao</a> and northern <a href="/wiki/Davao_City" title="Davao City">Davao</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Active_arcs">Active arcs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Active arcs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The distribution of Philippine Pliocene-Quaternary volcanoes generally reflects the activity along subduction zones presently bounding the archipelago. </p> <ul><li>Five distinct volcanic belts can be defined, namely: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luzon_Volcanic_Arc" title="Luzon Volcanic Arc">Luzon Volcanic Arc</a> corresponding to the Manila Trench</li> <li>East-Philippine Volcanic Arc associated with the Philippine Trench</li> <li>Negros-Panay Arc linked to the <a href="/wiki/Negros_Trench" title="Negros Trench">Negros Trench</a></li> <li>Sulu-Zamboanga Arc formed by the <a href="/wiki/Sulu_Trench" title="Sulu Trench">Sulu Trench</a></li> <li>Cotabato Arc related to the <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_Trench" title="Cotabato Trench">Cotabato Trench</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sedimentary_basins">Sedimentary basins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Sedimentary basins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The archipelago has 16 <a href="/wiki/Sedimentary_basin" title="Sedimentary basin">sedimentary basins</a> formed by tectonic processes. Here are the following sedimentary basins:<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>Luzon</b> <ul><li>Bicol Shelf</li> <li>Cagayan Valley Basin</li> <li>Central Luzon Basin</li> <li>Ilocos Trough</li> <li>Mindoro–Cuyo Basin</li> <li>East Palawan Basin</li> <li>Northwest Palawan Basin</li> <li>Reed Bank Basin</li> <li>Southeast Luzon Basin</li> <li>Southwest Palawan Basin</li> <li>West Luzon Basin</li></ul></li> <li><b>Visayas</b> <ul><li>Visayan Basin (or in Luzon)</li> <li>West Masbate–Iloilo Basin</li></ul></li> <li><b>Mindanao</b> <ul><li>Agusan–Davao Basin</li> <li>Cotabato Basin</li> <li>Sulu Sea Basin</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stratigraphic_groupings">Stratigraphic groupings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Stratigraphic groupings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_stratigraphic_formations_in_the_Philippines" title="List of stratigraphic formations in the Philippines">List of stratigraphic formations in the Philippines</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Subduction_tectonics_of_the_Philippines" title="Subduction tectonics of the Philippines">Subduction tectonics of the Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Back-arc_basin" title="Back-arc basin">Back-arc basin</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippine_Mobile_Belt&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; 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href="/wiki/South_American_plate" title="South American plate">South American</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px;padding:1.0em;"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tectonic_plates_boundaries_World_map_Wt_180degE_centered-en.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="World map indicating tectonic plate boundaries"><img alt="World map indicating tectonic plate boundaries" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Tectonic_plates_boundaries_World_map_Wt_180degE_centered-en.svg/120px-Tectonic_plates_boundaries_World_map_Wt_180degE_centered-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Tectonic_plates_boundaries_World_map_Wt_180degE_centered-en.svg/180px-Tectonic_plates_boundaries_World_map_Wt_180degE_centered-en.svg.png 1.5x, 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plate">Cocos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_plate" title="Indian plate">Indian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazca_plate" title="Nazca plate">Nazca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hebrides_plate" title="New Hebrides plate">New Hebrides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Okhotsk_microplate" title="Okhotsk microplate">Okhotsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Sea_plate" title="Philippine Sea plate">Philippine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scotia_plate" title="Scotia plate">Scotia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somali_plate" title="Somali plate">Somali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunda_plate" title="Sunda plate">Sunda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yangtze_plate" title="Yangtze plate">Yangtze</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates#Microplates" title="List of tectonic plates">Microplates</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adriatic_plate" title="Adriatic plate">Adriatic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea_plate" title="Aegean Sea plate">Aegean Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anatolian_sub-plate" title="Anatolian sub-plate">Anatolian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balmoral_Reef_plate" title="Balmoral Reef plate">Balmoral Reef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banda_Sea_plate" title="Banda Sea plate">Banda Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bird%27s_Head_plate" title="Bird's Head plate">Bird's Head</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capricorn_plate" title="Capricorn plate">Capricorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coiba_plate" title="Coiba plate">Coiba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conway_Reef_plate" title="Conway Reef plate">Conway Reef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explorer_plate" title="Explorer plate">Explorer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Futuna_plate" title="Futuna plate">Futuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_microplate" title="Galápagos microplate">Galápagos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gon%C3%A2ve_microplate" title="Gonâve microplate">Gonâve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorda_plate" title="Gorda plate">Gorda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenland_plate" title="Greenland plate">Greenland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halmahera_plate" title="Halmahera plate">Halmahera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iberian_plate" title="Iberian plate">Iberian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_plateau" title="Iranian plateau">Iranian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Fuca_plate" title="Juan de Fuca plate">Juan de Fuca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Fern%C3%A1ndez_plate" title="Juan Fernández plate">Juan Fernández</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerguelen_Plateau" title="Kerguelen Plateau">Kerguelen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kermadec_plate" title="Kermadec plate">Kermadec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lwandle_plate" title="Lwandle plate">Lwandle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madagascar_plate" title="Madagascar plate">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malpelo_plate" title="Malpelo plate">Malpelo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manus_plate" title="Manus plate">Manus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoke_plate" title="Maoke plate">Maoke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariana_plate" title="Mariana plate">Mariana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molucca_Sea_plate" title="Molucca Sea plate">Molucca Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niuafo%27ou_plate" title="Niuafo'ou plate">Niuafo’ou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Andes_plate" title="North Andes plate">North Andes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Bismarck_plate" title="North Bismarck plate">North Bismarck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Galapagos_microplate" title="North Galapagos microplate">North Galápagos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Okinawa_plate" title="Okinawa plate">Okinawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama_plate" title="Panama plate">Panama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pelso_plate" title="Pelso plate">Pelso</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Philippine Mobile Belt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivera_plate" title="Rivera plate">Rivera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rovuma_plate" title="Rovuma plate">Rovuma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sangihe_plate" title="Sangihe plate">Sangihe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seychelles_microcontinent" title="Seychelles microcontinent">Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shetland_plate" title="Shetland plate">Shetland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Sea_plate" title="Solomon Sea plate">Solomon Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Bismarck_plate" title="South Bismarck plate">South Bismarck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Sandwich_plate" title="South Sandwich plate">South Sandwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timor_plate" title="Timor plate">Timor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tisza_plate" title="Tisza plate">Tisza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonga_plate" title="Tonga plate">Tonga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trobriand_plate" title="Trobriand plate">Trobriand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_microplate" title="Victoria microplate">Victoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodlark_plate" title="Woodlark plate">Woodlark</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates#Ancient_tectonic_plates" title="List of tectonic plates">Ancient plates</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_plate" title="Baltic plate">Baltic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellingshausen_plate" title="Bellingshausen plate">Bellingshausen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charcot_plate" title="Charcot plate">Charcot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cimmeria_(continent)" title="Cimmeria (continent)">Cimmeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farallon_plate" title="Farallon plate">Farallon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insular_plate" title="Insular plate">Insular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intermontane_plate" title="Intermontane plate">Intermontane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Izanagi_plate" title="Izanagi plate">Izanagi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kula_plate" title="Kula plate">Kula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lhasa_terrane" title="Lhasa terrane">Lhasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agulhas_Basin" title="Agulhas Basin">Malvinas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moa_plate" title="Moa plate">Moa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_plate" title="Phoenix plate">Phoenix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kshiroda_plate" title="Kshiroda plate">Kshiroda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mid-ocean_ridge#List_of_mid-ocean_ridges" title="Mid-ocean ridge">Oceanic ridges</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aden_Ridge" title="Aden Ridge">Aden Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlsberg_Ridge" title="Carlsberg Ridge">Carlsberg Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Indian_Ridge" title="Central Indian Ridge">Central Indian Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chile_Ridge" title="Chile Ridge">Chile Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cocos_Ridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Cocos Ridge">Cocos Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Pacific_Rise" title="East Pacific Rise">East Pacific Rise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explorer_Ridge" title="Explorer Ridge">Explorer Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gakkel_Ridge" title="Gakkel Ridge">Gakkel Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_Islands#Geology" title="Galápagos Islands">Galápagos Spreading Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorda_Ridge" title="Gorda Ridge">Gorda Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Fuca_Ridge" title="Juan de Fuca Ridge">Juan de Fuca Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge" title="Mid-Atlantic Ridge">Mid-Atlantic Ridge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Knipovich" title="Nikolai Knipovich">Knipovich Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kolbeinsey_Ridge" title="Kolbeinsey Ridge">Kolbeinsey 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West Coast Fault Zone">Aomori Bay West Coast Fault Zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baikal_Rift_Zone" title="Baikal Rift Zone">Baikal Rift Zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haiyuan_Fault" title="Haiyuan Fault">Haiyuan Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fukozu_Fault" title="Fukozu Fault">Fukozu Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Futagawa-Hinagu_fault_zone" title="Futagawa-Hinagu fault zone">Futagawa-Hinagu fault zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idosawa_Fault" title="Idosawa Fault">Idosawa Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itoigawa-Shizuoka_Tectonic_Line" title="Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line">Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Izu%E2%80%93Bonin%E2%80%93Mariana_Arc" title="Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc">Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Median_Tectonic_Line" title="Japan Median Tectonic Line">Japan Median Tectonic Line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longmenshan_Fault" title="Longmenshan Fault">Longmenshan Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neodani_Fault" 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title="Manila Trench">Manila Trench</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Trench" title="Philippine Trench">Philippine Trench</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boso_Triple_Junction" class="mw-redirect" title="Boso Triple Junction">Boso Triple Junction</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Tectonic_plates_of_Southeast_Asia–New_Guinea_(Australian_plate–Pacific_plate_convergence_zone)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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title="Plate tectonics">Tectonic plates</a> of <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a>–<a href="/wiki/New_Guinea" title="New Guinea">New Guinea</a> (<a href="/wiki/Australian_plate" title="Australian plate">Australian plate</a>–<a href="/wiki/Pacific_plate" title="Pacific plate">Pacific plate</a> convergence zone)</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Plate_tectonics#Major_plates" title="Plate tectonics">Large</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caroline_plate" title="Caroline plate">Caroline plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Sea_plate" title="Philippine Sea plate">Philippine Sea plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunda_plate" title="Sunda plate">Sunda plate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Plate_tectonics#Major_plates" title="Plate tectonics">Small</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">West</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burma_plate" title="Burma plate">Burma plate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Philippines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Philippine Mobile Belt</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indonesia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banda_Sea_plate" title="Banda Sea plate">Banda Sea plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bird%27s_Head_plate" title="Bird's Head plate">Bird's Head plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halmahera_plate" title="Halmahera plate">Halmahera plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molucca_Sea_Collision_Zone" title="Molucca Sea Collision Zone">Molucca Sea Collision Zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molucca_Sea_plate" title="Molucca Sea plate">Molucca Sea plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sangihe_plate" title="Sangihe plate">Sangihe plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timor_plate" title="Timor plate">Timor plate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New Guinea</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maoke_plate" title="Maoke plate">Maoke plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Bismarck_plate" title="North Bismarck plate">North Bismarck plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manus_plate" title="Manus plate">Manus plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Sea_plate" title="Solomon Sea plate">Solomon Sea plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Bismarck_plate" title="South Bismarck plate">South Bismarck plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trobriand_plate" title="Trobriand plate">Trobriand plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodlark_plate" title="Woodlark plate">Woodlark plate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fault_(geology)" title="Fault (geology)">Faults</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flores_Back_Arc_Thrust_Fault" class="mw-redirect" title="Flores Back Arc Thrust Fault">Flores Back Arc Thrust Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Sumatran_fault" title="Great Sumatran fault">Great Sumatran Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marikina_Valley_fault_system" title="Marikina Valley fault system">Marikina Valley fault system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Britain_subduction_zone" title="New Britain subduction zone">New Britain subduction zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palu-Koro_Fault" title="Palu-Koro Fault">Palu-Koro Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_fault_system" title="Philippine fault system">Philippine fault system</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramu-Markham_Fault&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ramu-Markham Fault (page does not exist)">Ramu-Markham Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorong_Fault" title="Sorong Fault">Sorong Fault</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Oceanic_trench" title="Oceanic trench">Trenches</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Trough_(geology)" title="Trough (geology)">troughs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sunda_Trench" title="Sunda Trench">Java Trench</a> (Sunda) with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mentawai_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mentawai Trough (page does not exist)">Mentawai Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunda_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sunda Trough (page does not exist)">Sunda Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timor_Trough" title="Timor Trough">Timor Trough</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Philippines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cotabato_Trench" title="Cotabato Trench">Cotabato Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manila_Trench" title="Manila Trench">Manila Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Luzon_Trough" title="North Luzon Trough">North Luzon Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negros_Trench" title="Negros Trench">Negros Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Palawan_Trench&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Palawan Trench (page does not exist)">Palawan Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Trench" title="Philippine Trench">Philippine Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Trench" title="Philippine Trench">East Luzon Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulu_Trench" title="Sulu Trench">Sulu Trench</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sulawesi and Moluccas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aru_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aru Trough (page does not exist)">Aru Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Banda_Trench&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Banda Trench (page does not exist)">Banda Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ceram_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ceram Trough (page does not exist)">Ceram Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Salajar_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Salajar Trough (page does not exist)">Salajar Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sangihe_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sangihe Trough (page does not exist)">Sangihe Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Talaud_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Talaud Trough (page does not exist)">Talaud Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ternate_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ternate Trough (page does 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href="/w/index.php?title=Manokwari_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manokwari Trough (page does not exist)">Manokwari Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lyra_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lyra Trough (page does not exist)">Lyra Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mussau_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mussau Trough (page does not exist)">Mussau Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Guinea_Trench" title="New Guinea Trench">New Guinea Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocklington_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pocklington Trough (page does not exist)">Pocklington Trough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Britain_subduction_zone" title="New Britain subduction zone">New Britain Trench</a> (Bougainville)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Caroline_Trough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="West Caroline Trough (page does not exist)">West Caroline Trough</a></li> <li><a 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