The Philippine Rise
Institute, Foreign Service | December 2017
Abstract
The Philippine Rise, previously known as the Benham Rise, is a natural submarine prolongation of the Luzon Island extending up to 318 nautical miles (589 kilometers), from the Eastern Philippine Seaboard facing the Pacific Ocean. The Philippine Rise Region is comprised of the 200-nautical-mile continental shelf from the baselines of Luzon and the extension of the seabed and subsoil approximately up to 118 nautical miles beyond the legal continental shelf limits. In particular, it consists of a plateau and the Molave and Narra Spurs and Saddles in the east and northeast. It is docked to Luzon through the Palanan Saddle in the northwest and the Bicol Saddle in the southwest, and moves with it as a single unit. The Philippine Rise is geomorphologically distinct from the deep ocean fl oor and forms a thick crust lying at about 3,000–3,500 meters below sea level, except for the Benham Bank, its shallowest point, which towers up to 48–70 meters below sea level.
Citation
Institute, Foreign Service. 2017. The Philippine Rise. © Foreign Service Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7970.Keywords
Ecosystems
Environmental Planning
Ecology
Fishery development
Fishery projects
Development policy
Environment impact assessment
Environmental management
Environmental Damage
Environmental Conservation
Environment
Sociocultural Environment
Marine Environment
Environmental Problem
Environmental Law and Legislation
Aquatic Environment
Marine ecosystems
Environmental impact statements
Ecological risk assessment
Environmental auditing
Ecological monitoring
Environmental impact evaluation
Environmental quality management
Coastal ecology
Social ecology
Fisheries monitoring
Marine habitats
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