Lowest Part Of The Ocean Floor

The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.

Lowest part of the ocean floor.

It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km 1 580 mi in length and 69 km 43 mi in width. The bottom of the continental slope where loose sediments pile up. These areas are mostly found in deep water trenches and canyons. The depth depends on the trenches and valleys in the area.

Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet. In 2010 the united states center for coastal ocean mapping measured the depth of the challenger deep at 10 994 meters 36 070 feet below sea level with an estimated vertical accuracy of 40 meters. The hadalpelagic zone is also called the trenches and is found from the ocean basin and below. Only three people have ever done that and one was a u s.

It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth. This layer extends from 6 000 meters 19 686 feet to the bottom of the deepest parts of the ocean. But reaching the lowest part of the ocean. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.

In the pacific ocean somewhere between guam and the philippines lies the. Underwater mountains below the sea surface which are made up of rocks and sediment. The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres 124 mi east of the mariana islands. A layer of antarctic bottom water colder than 0ºc colors with darkest blue areas having the thickest layer and white none covers the ocean floor around antarctica center shaded grey.

A volcano in the ocean. The hadalpelagic zone lies between 19 686 feet to 36 100 feet. Lowest part of the ocean floor. The challenger deep in the mariana trench is the deepest known point in earth s oceans.

The maximum known depth is 10 984 metres 36 037 ft 25 metres 82 ft 6 825 miles at the southern end of a. The oceans deepest area is the mariana trench also called the marianas trench which is in the western part of the pacific ocean.