The Deepest Part Of The Ocean Floor Occurs Along The

Finally you would ascend tens of thousands of feet back up the continental slope and across the continental shelf.

The deepest part of the ocean floor occurs along the.

They also are the deepest parts of the ocean floor. Found in most oceans basins c. If mount everest were placed into. Trenches define one of the most important.

The trough is located along the boundary between the north american plate and the caribbean plate. The mariana trench for example is the deepest place in the ocean at 36 201 feet. Your journey across an ocean basin would end on the shore of another continent. It is the result of the oceanic pacific plate subducting beneath the oceanic mariana plate.

First marine national monument created in atlantic. However some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at 11 034 metres. Some scientists argue that this makes the challenger deep the perfect place to dispose of toxic nuclear waste. The mariana trench contains the deepest part of the world s oceans and runs along an oceanic oceanic convergent boundary.

Middle of the pacific d. The deepest vent located so far is in the cayman trough which is the deepest point in the caribbean sea. High uplifted features d. It sits on a subduction zone where the pacific plate is subducting beneath the philippine plate.

All of the above. It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km in length and 69 km in width. Active volcanic features b. It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth.

The maximum known depth is 10 984 metres at the southern end of a small slot shaped valley in its floor known as the challenger deep. 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. 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. The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres east of the mariana islands.

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. The deepest part of the ocean floor occurs along the. The challenger deep in the mariana trench is the deepest known point in earth s oceans. Middle of the indian ocean.