The most mysterious place on Earth
THE MARIANA TRENCH , THE WORLD'S DEEPEST POINT .
The Mariana trench lies in the west of the Pacific Ocean, south of Japan. Its depth varies along its 1580-mile length but the deepest point , known as Challenger Deep, reaches a depth of 10,984 metres (36,037 feet).
To put that in context, you could submerge Mount Everest and the summit would still be 2 kilometres underwater. Its depth is roughly the same distance that a commercial airliner cruises at above the ground.
Investigations by the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry in the 1950s recorded a maximum depth of 11,034 metres (36,201 feet) but this has never been verified. In fact, nobody knows for sure how deep the deepest part of the trench is, as no comprehensive survey has ever been conducted.
In many ways we know more about the surface of our moon than we do the extreme depths of our oceans. More people have walked on the moon than have reached the bottom of the Mariana trench.
The trench is the result of two tectonic plates colliding and one subducting under the other.
The Pacific Plate is being pushed underneath the Philippine Sea Plate at a rate of 2 centimetres annually in the south and 6 centimetres annually in the north.
Sometimes ocean trenches are gradually filled with muddy sediment from rivers but as the Mariana trench is far from any coastline it has remained relatively empty and maintains its depth. It also has dense rock which weighs down the tectonic plates.
What is at the bottom of the Mariana trench?
At the bottom of the Mariana trench the pressure exceeds 1000 atmospheres, which is enough to crush all but the most robust submersibles. It would kill an unprotected human instantly. The temperature is between 1 and 4°C.
STRANGE CREATURES
There are large and strange animals like Amoeba that can swallow at least 15 to 16 humans at once! It is found everywhere in Mariana Trench .Its size is increasing rapidly due to climatic conditions .
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