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Mysteries of the Deep Blue: Exploring Ocean Trenches
Sharon Nix
December 26, 2023
Deep beneath the surface of our world’s oceans, where sunlight barely penetrates, lie vast, unexplored territories that are as mysterious as they are fascinating.
These are the ocean trenches, the deepest parts of the ocean, where pressure is a thousand times that at sea level, and temperatures can plunge to just above freezing.
Let’s begin our journey with a bit of context. The ocean trenches are long, narrow depressions in the seafloor, and they’re the result of tectonic plate subduction, where one plate is forced under another.
The Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean, is the deepest known point in our Earth’s oceans, reaching an astonishing depth of approximately 36,000 feet.
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