King's Trough King's Trough King's Trough is an undersea trough in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located on the east side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, northwest of the Açores-Biscay rise and roughly 400 km NNE of the Azores. It is about 400 km long, running in a NW–SE direction. To the east it branches into the Peake Deep and Freen Deep. The center depth is 4500 m. Surrounding the trough are high ridges and seamounts, such as the Antialtair seamount and the Crum seamount complex. Various explanations for the complex have been suggested, ranging from compression a former plate-boundary, transform faulting or
Nankai Trough beneath the overriding plate (Obana et al., 2006). Recent large scale earthquakes resulting from subduction along the Nankai Trough have occurred in areas of large scale increases in the dip angle of the subducting plate (Hori et al., 2004). The trough is potentially a major source of hydrocarbon fuel, in the form of methane clathrate. However, there is no commercial exploitation. At depth in the ocean bottoms, in some cases water can form an ice-like solid structure that has methane trapped in its crystalline lattice, forming gas hydrates. The source of water for the formation of gas hydrates frequently comes