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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. Mapping was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown in cooperation with the NOAA/University of ...
De Trog van Puerto Rico is een trog op de grens van de Caraïbische Zee en de Atlantische Oceaan. De trog wordt geassocieerd met een complexe overgang tussen een subductiezone in het zuiden, langs de eilanden van de Kleine Antillen, en een transforme plaatgrens in het noorden tussen de Caribische Plaat en de Noord-Amerikaanse Plaat . De trog is ...
29 de nov. de 2023 · 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. The Bunce Fault is similar to the San Andreas Fault ...
The Trenches and Canyons Surrounding Puerto Rico. 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.
Geography of Puerto Rico. / 18.250°N 66.500°W / 18.250; -66.500. The geography of Puerto Rico consists of an archipelago located between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, east of Hispaniola, west of the Virgin Islands, north of Venezuela, and south of the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest point in the entire Atlantic.
Puerto Rico-gropa er en dyphavsgrop i Nord- Atlanterhavet. Gropen går parallelt med nordkysten av øyen Puerto Rico og er omtrent 1 750 kilometer lang og 100 kilometer bred. Største dyp er 8 380 meter, det dypeste i Atlanterhavet. [1] Gropen ligger i sonen der Den karibiske platen møter Den nordamerikanske kontinentalplaten .
29 de nov. de 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.
