Mariana Trench Ocean Floor Pictures

Film maker james cameron completes a record dive to the bottom of the mariana trench which is located in the western pacific ocean to the east of the mariana islands.

Mariana trench ocean floor pictures.

Victor vescovo spent four. Until now only two people have successfully made it to the bottom of challenger deep the planet s deepest point at the southern end of the mariana trench. An american explorer has descended nearly 11km seven miles to the deepest place in the ocean the mariana trench in the pacific. Estimates vary a little but at its blackest depths a crease called the challenger deep this abyss is close to 36 037 feet 10 984 meters or about 6 8 miles 10 9 kilometers deep.

So the pacific ocean floor is like a big conveyor belt slowly marching westward over time where it is recycled into the depths of the mariana trench. See more ideas about marianas trench ocean trench ocean. In fact the mariana trench is the deepest part anywhere in the earth s oceans. See more ideas about mariana trench ocean ocean marianas trench.

The mariana trench located south of japan and east of the philippines is the deepest part of the world s oceans marine scientists estimate its. This makes the ocean floor in the mariana trench the oldest in the world dating back around 180 million years. Mariana trench also called marianas trench deep sea trench in the floor of the western north pacific ocean the deepest such trench known on earth located mostly east as well as south of the mariana islands it is part of the western pacific system of oceanic trenches coinciding with subduction zones points where two adjacent tectonic plates collide one being forced below the other. The northern mariana arc submarine volcanoes.

Far to the east the new ocean floor is created by volcanic activity.