… An arc involving the Yap Island on the Philippine Sea Plate side forms a trencharc system.
This arc consists primarily of metamorphic rocks and lacks active volcanism (Shiraki, 1971; …

… to study the trench area. In this special issue, we introduce our newest discoveries at the
Yap Trench. The Yap Trench is located in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, close to the …

… basins and trenches. We conducted the investigation in the northern Yap Trench mainly by
the submersible Jiaolong in No. 37 of Chinese Ocean Cruises (Liu et al., 2018). As the first …

… of rocks from the Yap Trench acquired by three dives of the … and sedimentology of the Yap
Trench and further discusses the … ocean-ward slope of the trench. Peridotites sampled from the …

… The study area is located in the West Caroline Basin in the southwest, the Yap Trench in the
… westward along the Yap trench to the Philippine Sea plate to form a trench (above 7000 m) …

… around the Yap region: one was conducted in the northern Yap Trench using ocean bottom
seismometers, the other was conducted on the Yap Islands using a small triangular array. …

… Furthermore, the deep-sea terrain is variable, which can influence the distribution … deep-sea
ecosystems. Therefore, we assume that the community structures of microbes in Yap Trench …

… deep water exists in the eastern part of the Yap Trench. Furthermore, the potential density is
primarily dominated by salinity in the deep … flow in the Yap Trench is mainly composed of low …

… –6,796 m) in the Yap Trench on the southeastern boundary of the Philippine Sea Plate in the
… reported for the first time in the Yap Trench. Arthropoda was the most abundant phylum and …

… The Yap Trench is an important segment of the arcuate trench system in the Northwest
Pacific, linking adjacent basins and trenches (Figure 1). As mentioned above, previous studies …