Formed by the subduction of the Pacific plate under the Indo-Australian Plat, the Kermadec Trench has a maximum depth of 1o. Along with the Tonga Trench to the north, the Kermadec Trench creates the 2, km-long, near-linear Kermadec-Tonga subduction system. The trench is also home for a variety of species including a species of giant amphipod, measures approximately 34 cm in length, at the bottom of the trench.
A few years ago, the Kermadec Trench was in news after the Nereus, an unmanned research submarine, imploded because of the high pressure at a depth of 9, meters while conducting explorations at the Kermadec Trench. Also known as Izu-Bonin Trench, this deep trench stretches from Japan to the northern section of Mariana Trench and it is also an extension of the Japan Trench. Another deep submarine trench located east of the Japanese islands, Japan trench as shown in image above is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire in the northern Pacific Ocean.
With a maximum depth of 9 km, the Japan trench stretches from the Kuril Islands to the Bonin Islands and is also the extension of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and the Izu-Ogasawara Trench to the north and south respectively. The trench was formed due to the subduction of the oceanic Pacific plate beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate.
Lies at a depth of 8. Efforts for a complete mapping of this trench have been undergoing on for a quite long time now. This South Sandwich Trench is also associated with an active volcanic arc. The Atacama Trench has a maximum depth of 8. The deepest point of the trench is known as Richards Deep. The trench measures around 5, km in length and 64 km in mean width while it covers an area of about , square kilometres. The Atacama Trench was formed as a result of a convergent boundary, between the subducting Nazca and the South American Plates.
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Here are the deepest oceans and seas. The Atlantic Ocean has an average depth of 3, meters, making it the third-deepest ocean by average depth, with a maximum depth of 8, m below sea level. The Indian Ocean has an average depth of 3, m, making it the second-deepest ocean by the average depth. However, the ocean is 7, m deep at the deepest point, making it the third deepest ocean and water body.
Its maximum depth is 7, m. Ocean trenches are long, narrow depressions on the seafloor. These chasms are the deepest parts of the ocean—and some of the deepest natural spots on Earth. Marine microbiologist Dr. Douglas Bartlett and marine geologist Dr.
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