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Bookmark or Share- How deep do marine plastics go? - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionThis “trench trap” is so efficient at funneling debris, in fact, that researchers have detected plastics in nearly all of the world’s deepest trenches, including the Mariana Trench (10,924 meters / 35,839 feet), the Philippine Trench (10,540 meters / 34,580 ft ), the Cayman Trench (7,686 meters / 25,216 feet), and the Java Trench (7,450 ...
- Mid-ocean Ridges - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionThe mid-ocean ridge is a continuous range of undersea volcanic mountains that encircles the globe almost entirely underwater. It is a central feature of seafloor terrain that is more varied and more spectacular than almost anything found on dry land, and includes a collection of volcanic ridges, rifts, fault zones, and other geologic features.
- Abyssal Zone - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWhat is the abyssal zone? Earth’s vast oceans run deep, bottoming out around 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) in most places, although trenches can form underwater canyons extending another 7,000 meters (22,965 feet). The seafloor and water column from 3,000 to 6,500 meters (9,842 to 21,325 feet) depth is known as the abyssal zone, or the abyss.
- Ocean Trenches - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionOcean trenches are steep depressions in the deepest parts of the ocean [where old ocean crust from one tectonic plate is pushed beneath another plate, raising mountains, causing earthquakes, and forming volcanoes on the seafloor and on land. With depths exceeding 6,000 meters (nearly 20,000 feet), trenches make up the world’s "hadal zone ...
- A new way to discover life in the ocean’s hadal zoneIf we want to learn more about the limits of life in our solar system, the ocean’s deep trenches and troughs are a great place to start. Known as the hadal zone, a depth ranging from 6,000 meters (19,000 feet) and deeper, this ecosystem is home to animal life that is specially adapted to crushing pressure, inky blackness, and island-like ...
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