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To Sua ocean trench in Lotofaga. During the 1960s, archaeologists investigating the early settlement of the Pacific Islands uncovered a prehistoric settlement inland from Lotofaga in an area marked Tafagamanu Sand. [3] The date obtained from the cultural deposit was 735 plus or minus 85 years BP.
English: To Sua Ocean Trench, located on the southern coast of Upolu island, is a popular destination for tourists. Samoa - August 2016. ... Camera location View this ...
To-Sua Ocean Trench. Samoa Located on Samoa's Upolu Island, this 30-meter deep dot of ocean is surrounded by tropical landscaped gardens and includes a ladder and platform that visitors can use to ...
Oceanic crust is formed at an oceanic ridge, while the lithosphere is subducted back into the asthenosphere at trenches. Oceanic trenches are prominent, long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor. They are typically 50 to 100 kilometers (30 to 60 mi) wide and 3 to 4 km (1.9 to 2.5 mi) below the level of the surrounding oceanic ...
Location of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. Oceanic trenches are long, narrow topographic depressions of the seabed.They are the deepest parts of the ocean floor, and they define one of the most important natural boundaries on the Earth's solid surface: the one between two lithospheric plates.
A map of West Mata and where it is located. West Mata can be found in the northeastern portion of Tonga, in between Fiji and Samoa. It is located approximately 200 km (124 mi) southwest of the Samoan Islands and around 600 km (373 mi) northeast of the Lau Islands of Fiji.
The oceanic trench and the associated outer trench swell mark where Pacific Plate begins its descent into the IBM Subduction Zone. The IBM trench is where the Pacific Plate lithosphere begins to sink. The IBM trench is devoid of any significant sediment fill; the ~400 m or so thickness of sediments is completely subducted with the downgoing 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.