Puerto Rico Trench - Wikipedia
WebThe Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The oceanic trench , the deepest in the Atlantic, is associated with a complex transition between the Lesser Antilles subduction zone to the south and the major transform fault zone or plate boundary, which extends west between Cuba and ...
Puerto Rico Trench - National Geographic Society
WebNov 29, 2023 · Situated just north of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Trench separates the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The ocean trench is a geologically complex site. The Caribbean and North American tectonic plates are scraping by each other, making a huge transform fault that extends from the Puerto Rico Trench …
Puerto Rico Trench | Map, Depth, & Location | Britannica
WebPuerto Rico Trench, submarine depression in the North Atlantic Ocean, roughly parallel to the northern coast of the island of Puerto Rico and lying about 75 miles (120 km) to the north. The Puerto Rico Trench is about 1,090 miles …
NOAA Ocean Explorer: Puerto Rico Trench: Implications for Plate …
WebU.S. Geological Survey. The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, with water depths exceeding 8,400 meters (figure 1). 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.
Exploring Puerto Rico’s Seamounts, Trenches, and Troughs: …
WebThe 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.
Ocean Trench - National Geographic Society
WebNov 29, 2023 · The Puerto Rico Trench is a tectonically complex depression in part formed by the Lesser Antilles subduction zone. Here, the oceanic crust of the enormous North American plate (carrying the western Atlantic Ocean) is being subducted beneath the oceanic crust of the smaller Caribbean plate.
NOAA Ocean Explorer: Puerto Rico Trench
WebNOAA'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. Mapping was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown in cooperation with the NOAA/University of ...
Puerto Rico Trench - Wikiwand
WebThe island of Puerto Rico, which lies immediately to the south of the fault zone and the trench, suffered a destructive tsunami soon after the 1918 San Fermín earthquake. The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the …
Puerto Rico Trench | Science and the Sea
WebJan 31, 2009 · The Puerto Rico Trench is at the intersection between the Caribbean and North American plates, which are sliding past each other at about an inch a year. The trench itself stretches more than a thousand miles along the ocean floor, from near Hispaniola to north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The age of the Puerto Rico Trench | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
WebThe age of the Puerto Rico Trench. December 31, 1968. 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, …
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