This document discusses several deep ocean trenches around the world. It provides details on the deepest trenches, including the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, which reaches a maximum depth of 11,034 meters. It also describes other extremely deep trenches such as the Tonga Trench in the southwest Pacific Ocean, which reaches 10,882 meters deep, and the Philippine Trench east of the Philippines, with a maximum depth of 10,545 meters. In total it provides location details and maximum depths for 8 different ocean trenches.
3. What is an Oceanic Trench?
◦ Oceanic trenches are topographic depressions of the sea
floor, relatively narrow in width, but very long.
◦ These oceanographic features are the deepest parts of the
ocean floor.
◦ These are the distinctive features of the convergent plate
boundaries.
◦ Oceanic lithosphere moves into trenches at a global rate of
about 3 km2/yr.
5. Trench Ocean Maximum Depth
Mariana Trench Pacific Ocean 11,034 m (36,201 ft)
Tonga Trench Pacific Ocean 10,882 m (35,702 ft)
Philippine Trench Pacific Ocean 10,545 m (34,596 ft)
Kuril-Kamchatka Trench Pacific Ocean 10,542 m (34,587 ft)
Kermadec Trench Pacific Ocean 10,047 m (32,963 ft)
Izu-Bonin Trench Pacific Ocean 9,810 m (32,190 ft)
Japan Trench Pacific Ocean 9,504 m (31,181 ft)
Puerto Rico Trench Atlantic Ocean 8,800 m (28,900 ft)
South Sandwich Trench Atlantic Ocean 8,428 m (27,651 ft)
Peru-Chile Trench Pacific Ocean 8,065 m (26,460 ft)
6. The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans.
Pacific plate subducting beneath Philippine sea plate
It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, an average of 124
miles or 200km to the east of the Mariana Islands, Philippines.
The trench is about 2,550 kilometers (1,580 mi) long with an
average width of 69 kilometers (43 mi).
It is a crescent-shaped scar in the Earth's crust.
Its maximum depth is 11,034 m(36,201 ft).
9. The Tonga Trench is an oceanic trench located in the south-
west Pacific Ocean.
It is the deepest trench of the Southern Hemisphere and the
second deepest on Earth.
The Tonga Trench is the northern half of the Tonga-Kermadec
subduction system which extends 2,550 km (1,580 mi)
between New Zeeland and Tonga.
The maximum depth of Tonga Trench is 10,882 m (35,702 ft).
11. The Philippine Trench (also Philippine Deep, Mindanao
Trench, and Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east
of the Philippines.
Philippine sea plate subduct beneath Philippine mobile belt
It has a length of approximately 1,320 kilometers (820 miles)
and a width of about 30 km (19 mi) from the center of the
Philippine island of Luzon.
The maximum depth of Philippine Trench is 10,545 m
(34,596 ft).
13. The Kuril–Kamchatka Trench or Kuril Trench is an oceanic trench in
the northwest Pacific Ocean.
It extends from a triple junction with the Ulakhan Fault and
the Aleutian Trench near the Commander Islands, Russia, in the
northeast, to the intersection with the Japan Trench in the southwest.
The trench formed as a result of the subduction zone, which formed in
the late Cretaceous, that created the Kuril island arc as well as the
Kamchatka volcanic arc.
Its maximum depth is 10,542 m (34,587 ft).