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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.
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 Earth's deepest trench is the Mariana Trench which extends for about 2500 km (1600 miles) across the seabed. It is near the Mariana Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the West Pacific. Its deepest point is 10994 m (nearly 7 miles) below the surface of the sea. [10]
The Mariana Trench is the deepest known submarine trench, and the deepest location in the Earth's crust itself. [38] It is a subduction zone where the Pacific Plate is being subducted under the Mariana Plate. [3] At the deepest point, the trench is nearly 11,000 m deep (almost 36,000 feet).
This is the Mariana Trench - the deepest point on Earth - found in the Western Pacific Ocean.GARRIOTT: “It is almost 11,000 meters of sea water deep, that is deeper than Mount Everest is high ...
Oceanic trenches — the deepest parts of the ocean floor, typically formed when one tectonic plate slides under another. Geology portal; Subcategories.
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 ...