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Oceanic trench formed along an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary The Mariana Trench contains the deepest part of the world's oceans, and runs along an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary. It is the result of the oceanic Pacific plate subducting beneath the oceanic Mariana plate .
The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width.
The Challenger Deep is a relatively small slot-shaped depression in the bottom of a considerably larger crescent-shaped oceanic trench, which itself is an unusually deep feature in the ocean floor. The Challenger Deep consists of three basins, each 6 to 10 km (3.7 to 6.2 mi) long, 2 km (1.2 mi) wide, and over 10,850 m (35,597 ft) in depth ...
Japan Trench: Pacific Ocean 9,000 29,527 5.59 8 Puerto Rico Trench: Atlantic Ocean 8,605 28,232 5.35 9 Yap Trench: Pacific Ocean 8,527 27,976 5.30 10 Richards Deep: Peru–Chile Trench, Pacific Ocean 8,065 26,456 5.01 11 Diamantina Deep: Diamantina fracture zone, Indian Ocean: 8,047 26,401 5.00 12 Romanche Trench: Atlantic Ocean 7,760 25,460 4. ...
The hadal zone, also known as the hadopelagic zone, is the deepest region of the ocean, lying within oceanic trenches.The hadal zone ranges from around 6 to 11 km (3.7 to 6.8 mi; 20,000 to 36,000 ft) below sea level, and exists in long, narrow, topographic V-shaped depressions.
Litke Deep (Russian: Жёлоб Ли́тке) is [1] [2] an oceanic trench in the Arctic Ocean. The deepest point, also referred to as Litke Deep, is 5,449 m (17,877 ft) below sea level . It is the closest point of the upper surface of Earth's lithosphere to Earth's center , with Challenger Deep being 14.7268 km (9.2 mi) further from Earth's ...
The basin floor measures about 220 km 2 (85 sq mi) and is the deepest point in the Arctic Ocean. [9] [10] The only person to have reached the bottom of the Molloy Deep is American explorer Victor Vescovo as part of his Five Deeps Expedition.
The South Sandwich Trench is a deep arcuate trench in the South Atlantic Ocean lying 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the east of the South Sandwich Islands. It is the deepest trench of the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and the second-deepest of the Atlantic Ocean after the Puerto Rico Trench.