2006-09-28 23:49:44 · 13 answers · asked by Holly 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Pacific Ocean at Mariana Trench near Japan is more then 11kms deep which is deepest point in ocean known to man.
Some site says it is 11,033 Mts
& some 10,979 mts......
2006-09-28 23:52:20 · answer #1 · answered by Ashish Samadhia 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Greatest Ocean Depth:
Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest point in Earth's oceans. The bottom there is 10,924 meters (35,840 feet) below sea level. If Mount Everest, the highest moutain on Earth, were placed at this location it would be covered by over one mile of water. The Challenger Deep is named after the British survey ship Challenger II, which discovered this deepest location in 1951.
Why is the ocean so deep here?
The Mariana Trench is located at a convergent plate boundary. Here two converging lithospheric plates collide with one another. At this collision point, one of the plates descends into the mantle. At the line of contact between the two plates the downward flexure forms a trough known as an ocean trench. An example of an ocean trench is shown in the diagram below.
2006-09-29 06:42:21 · answer #2 · answered by Via L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
11,033 meters (36,201 feet)
The Mariana Trench is located in the Pacific Ocean, just east of the 14 Mariana Islands (11"21' North latitude and 142" 12' East longitude ) near Japan. As you probably already know, it is the deepest part of the earth's oceans, and the deepest location of the earth itself.
The deepest part of the Mariana Trench is the Challenger Deep, so named after the exploratory vessel HMS Challenger II; a fishing boat converted into a sea lab by Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard.
2006-09-29 00:03:29 · answer #3 · answered by Druid 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
about 6 miles deep at the deepest valley in the ocean
2006-09-28 23:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by Mike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deepest part is Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench (36,200 feet)
2006-09-29 00:00:41 · answer #5 · answered by david4thelord 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure exactly but I know the deepest point in the world can fit Mt Everest in it, fully submerged and with a mile or two of water above it - that's deep!
2006-09-28 23:52:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
marianna trench in the pacific ocean is deepest in world at over 32,000 ft deep
2006-09-29 00:02:28 · answer #7 · answered by jenny wren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's the Pacific and it's around 3 and one half miles deep.
2006-09-29 00:00:04 · answer #8 · answered by bobbi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mirian trench, between Japan and Australia is about 11km deep but it is believed to reach depths 11500 metres at one place.
2006-09-29 06:14:54 · answer #9 · answered by shrimpdoddy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 mts at the deep end
2006-09-29 00:02:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋