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The relatively narrow trough trends east-northeast to west-southwest and has a maximum depth of 7,686 metres (25,217 ft). Within the trough is a slowly spreading north–south ridge which may be the result of an offset or gap of approximately 420 kilometres (260 mi) along the main fault trace.
The team deployed the AUV Autosub6000 to map anomalies and RUV HyBIS to collect video, visually confirming the site named "Beebe" after William Beebe at a depth of 4,960 m (16,270 ft). [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The vent field was further explored by the NOAAS Okeanos Explorer in 2011, R/V Falkor cruise FK008 and R/V Yokosuka cruise YK13-05 in 2013, and ...
Max. depth: 7,686 m (25,217 ft) Islands: ... The sea's deepest point is the Cayman Trough, ... The shaded relief map of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico area ...
A bathymetry map of the Mount Dent ocean core complex. The Von Damm vent field is located centrally on the Mid-Cayman Rise between the Oriente and Swan Island transform faults. [ 5 ] The ocean core complex, which the field resides on the eastern side of, is known as Mount Dent and is the most central of the three known on the spreading center.
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 Aleutian Trench: Pacific Ocean 7,679 25,194 4.77 15 ...
Beyond the boundaries of the Fish Sanctuary, the Cayman Trough plunges to depths of over 7,620 metres (25,000 ft) and is renowned for deep-water sport fishing including marlin and tuna. [ 6 ] In 2010, the Fish Sanctuary launched the Oracabessa Bay Sea Turtle Project, which monitors and protects critically endangered hawksbill sea turtles on the ...
Additionally, the Cayman Trough, which is a pull-apart basin within a transform fault zone, [10] is not an oceanic trench. Trenches, along with volcanic arcs and Wadati–Benioff zones (zones of earthquakes under a volcanic arc) are diagnostic of convergent plate boundaries and their deeper manifestations, subduction zones .
The formation of the Cayman Trough produced the last significant tectonic feature on the islands after 39 million years ago, with sinistral strike-slip faults. A structural block produced as a result creates a 5.7 kilometer sinistrally offset contact between the Water Island and Louisenhoj formations.