Talk:Cayman Trough

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[edit] Trough vs. Trench

I'm not an expert on this subject (don't recall how this article got on my watchlist), but I wonder about the move from "trench" to "trough". A search on Google for both yields about 11,400 results for "Cayman Trench" vs. a paltry 638 for "Cayman Trough". Admittedly, that's not the final arbiter of such things, but a ratio of 18 to 1 means something. (It at least deserves an "also known as" mention!) -- Kbh3rd 16:50, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Didn't realize there was such a disparity on Google - a note to that effect would be in order. However, trenches are usually associated with subduction zone boundaries; whereas the Cayman is either a transform pull-apart trough or as the reference indicates, a spreading center or developing? ridge system. Vsmith 17:06, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

The Windward passage is between eastern Cuba and Haiti, so I threw in the Sierra Maestra and reworded to fit. BTW isn't that figure from [[1]] El Jigue 3-22-06

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