Mariana Trench -- A short Q & A Journey //=\\
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean about 200 kilometres east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest.
Has anyone been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
Why is Mariana Trench so deep?
The Mariana Trench is located at a convergent plate boundary. Here two converging plates of oceanic lithosphere collide with one another. At this collision point, one of the plates descends into the mantle.
How old is Mariana Trench?
About 180 million years.
What is depth of Mariana Trench?
It is 11,034 meters (36,000 feet) deep, which is almost 7 miles.
Is there anything deeper than the Mariana Trench?
The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kilometre southwest of the U.S. territorial island of Guam. Challenger Deep is approximately 36,200 feet deep.
Why is the Mariana Trench so dangerous?
Because of its extreme depth, the Mariana Trench is cloaked in perpetual darkness and the temperature is just a few degrees above freezing. The water pressure at the bottom of the trench is a crushing eight tons per square inch—or about a thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level.
What would happen to a human at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
If someone exited a submarine at the bottom of the Mariana's Trench (-36000 feet)? The person's lungs would be crushed unless they were equipped with a SCUBA tank and mask charged up to that enormous pressure.
What animals live in Mariana Trench?
At the deepest point of the ocean thrive strange creatures you have never seen before.
Scientific names: Grimpoteuthis, Comb Jellies, Ctenophora, Benthocodon hyalinus, Argyropelecus Gigas, Opisthoproctidae, Deep Sea HatchetFish.
Who owns Mariana Trench?
The majority of the Mariana Trench is now a U.S. protected zone as part of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, established by President George W. Bush in 2009. Permits for research in the monument, including in the Sirena Deep, have been secured from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Has a Megalodon been found in the Mariana Trench?
'No. It's definitely not alive in the deep oceans, despite what the Discovery Channel has said in the past,' notes Emma. 'If an animal as big as Megalodon still lived in the oceans we would know about it.'
What is special about Mariana Trench?
The region surrounding the trench is noteworthy for many unique environments. The Mariana Trench contains the deepest known points on Earth, vents bubbling up liquid sulfur and carbon dioxide, active mud volcanoes and marine life adapted to pressures 1,000 times that at sea level.
What was found in the Mariana Trench?
A recent study revealed that a plastic bag, like the kind given away at grocery stores, is now the deepest known piece of plastic trash, found at a depth of 11,035 meters (36,000 feet) inside the Mariana Trench.
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