South Shetland Trough

The South Shetland Trough is an undersea trough located north of the South Shetland Islands.[1][2] It is the remnant of a subduction zone where the defunct Phoenix Plate, now part of the Antarctic Plate, subducted under the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands.[3]

South Shetland Trough
Location of the South Shetland Trough

References
  1. Wolfram|Alpha: South Shetland Trough
  2. South Shetland Trough. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
  3. Bird, Peter (March 2003). "An updated digital model of plate boundaries". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 4 (3). doi:10.1029/2001gc000252. ISSN 1525-2027.

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