It is made up of low hills and flat plains.
Deepest flatest part of the ocean floor.
Plate tectonics and the ocean floor.
The deepest part of the ocean floor.
The deepest part of the ocean floor is the marianas trench near the philippines in the pacific ocean.
It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth.
It is almost seven miles deep or about 35 000 feet.
It is almost seven miles deep or about 35 000 feet.
A chain of underground mountains formed from plates pulling apart.
Assuming that you are a layman in terms of plates i will elucidate you in simpler terms.
Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid ocean ridge abyssal plains cover more than 50 of the earth s surface.
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.
If mount everest were placed into.
Ocean basin abyssal plain located on either side of the mid ocean ridge.
The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres east of the mariana islands.
They are caused by hurricanes and tropical storms.
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The rest of the ocean floor varies in depth.
Starting from land a trip across an ocean basin along the seafloor would begin with crossing the continental shelf.
To understand this fact you need to understand the basics of plate tectonics.
The deepest part of the ocean floor is the marianas trench near the philippines in the pacific ocean.
Strong waves caused by earthquakes and underwater volcanoes.
The deepest and flattest part of the ocean floor.
However some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at 11 034 metres.
It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km in length and 69 km in width.