Deepest Floor Of The Ocean

The challenger deep in the mariana trench is the deepest known point in earth s oceans.

Deepest floor of the ocean.

It is located in the south pacific ocean on the northern side of the kermadec tonga subduction zone. The oceans deepest area is the mariana trench also called the marianas trench which is in the western part of the pacific ocean. As plates converge one plate may move under the other causing earthquakes forming volcanoes or creating deep ocean trenches. It is almost seven miles deep or about 35 000 feet.

The most recent descent was made in 2012 by a manned deep submergence vehicle the deepsea challenger. Many ocean floor features are a result of the interactions that occur at the edges of these plates. According to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration the trench is almost 5 times wider than it is deep. The maximum known depth is 10 984 metres 36 037 ft 25 metres 82 ft 6 825 miles at the southern end of a.

It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km 1 580 mi in length and 69 km 43 mi in width. The tonga trench is the second deepest site in the ocean floor at 35 702 feet below the level of the sea floor. Cousteau submerged his camera to the sea floor of the romanche trench in the atlantic ocean some 24 500 feet down providing the first glimpse of this previously unseen part of the ocean. It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth.

The trench is 1 554 miles long and 44 miles wide or 120 times larger than the grand canyon. The deepest part of the ocean floor is the marianas trench near the philippines in the pacific ocean. The pacific ocean has around 50 000km of convergent plate margins and most of the deepest point located around this place. The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres 124 mi east of the mariana islands.

The shifting plates may collide converge move away diverge or slide past transform each other. The rest of the ocean floor varies in depth.