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India Trench Indian Ocean Between India & Maldives 7,225 m (23,704 ft) [44] Ceylon Trench Indian Ocean Sri Lanka Deep 6,400 m (21,000 ft) [44] Somalia Trench Indian Ocean Somali Deep 6,084 m (19,961 ft) [44] Madagascar Trench Indian Ocean Madagascar Deep 6,048 m (19,843 ft) [44] Puerto Rico Trench: Atlantic Ocean Rio Bermuda Deep
The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, parallel to and north of Puerto Rico, where the oceanic trench reaches the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean. The trench is associated with a complex transition from the Lesser Antilles frontal subduction zone between the South American ...
Near the equator, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is divided into the North Atlantic Ridge and the South Atlantic Ridge by the Romanche Trench, a narrow submarine trench with a maximum depth of 7,758 m (25,453 ft), one of the deepest locations of the Atlantic Ocean. This trench, however, is not regarded as the boundary between the North and South ...
Pages in category "Oceanic trenches of the Atlantic Ocean" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Milwaukee Deep, also known as the Milwaukee Depth, is the deepest part of the Puerto Rico Trench, constituting the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean. [1] Together with the surrounding seabed area, known as Brownson Deep, the Milwaukee Deep forms an elongated depression that constitutes the floor of the trench.
Puerto Rico Trench: Atlantic Ocean 8,605 28,232 5.35 9 Yap Trench: Pacific Ocean 8,527 27,976 5.30 10 Richards Deep: Peru–Chile Trench, Pacific Ocean 8,065 26,456 5.01 11 Diamantina Deep: Diamantina fracture zone, Indian Ocean: 8,047 26,401 5.00 12 Romanche Trench: Atlantic Ocean 7,760 25,460 4.82 13 Cayman Trough: Caribbean 7,687 25,238 4.78 14
The South Sandwich Trench is a deep arcuate trench in the South Atlantic Ocean lying 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the east of the South Sandwich Islands. It is the deepest trench of the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and the second-deepest of the Atlantic Ocean after the Puerto Rico Trench.
The Romanche Trench, also called the Romanche Furrow or Romanche Gap, is the third-deepest of the major trenches of the Atlantic Ocean, after the Puerto Rico Trench and the South Sandwich Trench. It bisects the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) just north of the equator at the narrowest part of the Atlantic between Brazil and West Africa, extending from ...