The Deepest Part Of The Ocean Floor Occurs Along The

The challenger deep is the deepest part of the ocean.

The deepest part of the ocean floor occurs along the.

It sits on a subduction zone where the pacific plate is subducting beneath the philippine plate. In 2010 the united states center for coastal ocean mapping measured the depth of the challenger deep at 10 994 meters 36 070 feet below sea level with an estimated vertical accuracy of 40 meters. It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth. The oceanic trenches are hemispheric scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor.

High uplifted features d. The deepest part of the ocean floor occurs along the. The mariana trench for example is the deepest place in the ocean at 36 201 feet. 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. First marine national monument created in atlantic. The deepest vent located so far is in the cayman trough which is the deepest point in the caribbean sea. Finally you would ascend tens of thousands of feet back up the continental slope and across the continental shelf.

The challenger deep in the mariana trench is the deepest known point in earth s oceans. The deepest part of the ocean floor occurs along mid oceanic ridges active volcanic features found in most oceans basins high uplifted features geologically active. Your journey across an ocean basin would end on the shore of another continent. Middle of the indian ocean.

It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km in length and 69 km in width. If mount everest were placed into. A deep sea trench which is the deepest part of the ocean floor where do subduction boundaries occur either between two oceanic plates or between oceanic plate and continental plate the meeting of the pacific ocean and south america what forms along with a deep sea trench in the ocean. They also are the deepest parts of the ocean floor.

The trough is located along the boundary between the north american plate and the caribbean plate. All of the above. Trenches define one of the most important. Some scientists argue that this makes the challenger deep the perfect place to dispose of toxic nuclear waste.

The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres east of the mariana islands. Found in most oceans basins c. Hydrothermal vents have been found all over the ocean including regions of the pacific atlantic indian southern and arctic oceans. Active volcanic features b.