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Puerto Rico Trench. January 31, 2009. By Damond Benningfield. The deepest spot in the Atlantic isn't way out in the middle of the ocean, as you might expect it to be. Instead, it's close to the edge -- a narrow canyon north of Puerto Rico known as the Puerto Rico Trench. A long segment of it bottoms out at a depth of more than five miles.
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Geology The Puerto Rico Trench is located at a boundary between two plates that pass each other along a transform boundary with only a small component of subduction. The Caribbean Plate is moving to the east relative to the North American Plate.
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The Puerto Rico Trench is a very flat depression, 280 kilometers (175 miles) long. Fast Fact The southern side of the trench, north of Puerto Rico, is covered with a smooth layer of limestone. Fast Fact A large fault system, the Bunce Fault, was discovered in very deep water near the trench.
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The Puerto Rico Trench is a deep oceanic subduction zone that runs parallel with the northern coasts of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. It is the deepest place in the Atlantic Ocean with a maximum depth of approximately 8400 m.
Morphology and colorshaded bathymetry of the Puerto Rico Trench U.S. Geological Survey
The Puerto Rico Trench. The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, with water depths exceeding 8,400 meters. Its depth is comparable to the deep trenches in the Pacific Ocean. Trenches in the Pacific are located in places where one tectonic plate subducts or slides under another one.
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The Puerto Rico Trench is about 1,090 mi (1,750 km) long and 60 mi (100 km) wide. The deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean, the Milwaukee Depth, lies at a depth of 27,493 ft (8,380 m) at the western end of the trench, about 100 mi (160 km) northwest of Puerto Rico. On December 19, 2018, its deepest point was identified by the DSSV Pressure Drop.
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The Puerto Rico Trench joins the Lesser Antilles Island arc in the eastern Caribbean. A few trenches are partially filled with sediments derived from the bordering continents. The Aleutian Trench is effectively buried east of Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska. There the ocean floor is smooth and flat. To the west, farther from the sediment.
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NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration identified the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, as a prime target for exploration and funded two expeditions to map the trench and its vicinity.
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The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, with water depths exceeding 8,300 meters. Its depth is comparable to the deep trenches in the Pacific Ocean. Trenches in the Pacific are located in places where one tectonic plate subducts or slides under another one.
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Five Deeps Expedition A few days before Christmas, a submersible journeyed all 27,480 feet down to the very bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench. The feat made U.S. private equity firm founder Victor.
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It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques.
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The northern boundary of Puerto Rico is marked by the 800-kilometer-long Puerto Rico Trench, which is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, with a maximum depth of 8,648 meters (Figure 1). It is the eighth deepest trench in the world and the deepest seafloor outside the Pacific Ocean.
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ยฉ The film describes the collection of detailed soundings of the seafloor using multibeam sonar at sea, and presents virtual reality fly-bys through the spec.
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โ โโโ โโโโโโโโโโ Loading. Article Vocabulary Ocean trenches are long, narrow depressions on the seafloor. These chasms are the deepest parts of the oceanโand some of the deepest natural spots on Earth.
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The Puerto Rico Trench is parallel to and north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and reaches depths of more than 8000 meters. Puerto Rico, the closest land area, has a central longitudinal core of Cretaceous and early Tertiary volcanic rocks, some serpentinite of undetermined age, and numerous small intrusions.
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The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, located at a boundary between two plates that slide past each other with only a small component of subduction. It is associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth and a thick limestone platform. It is also a region of high seismicity and large earthquakes, and a threat of tsunamis for the islands of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and eastern Hispaniola.