The Taixinan Basin (Chinese: 台西南盆地; pinyin: Táixīnán Péndì), also called the Tainan Basin (Chinese: 台南盆地), and sometimes rendered literally as Southwest...

Penghu Islands. The Taixinan Basin (台西南盆地) is located between Taiwan Banks and the Central Mountains. The Okinawa Trough, the back-arc basin behind the Ryukyu...

of the South China Sea under the Philippine Sea plate. Palawan and Taixinan Basins are typical examples of this type of subsidence. In the western area...