Atacama Trench
The Atacama Graben (also Chile trench is called) one to 8081 meters deep and 2500 km long Tiefseerinne in the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean (Pacific).
geography
The Atacama Graben is located between the South American coast to the north and east, the eastern foothills of the Easter emerging in the south, the Chile Basin to the west and the Nascaschwelle in the northwest. It is located about 160 kilometers off the Peruvian - Chilean coast and between 16 and 30 ° south latitude and 72 and 76 ° west longitude .
The elongated Atacama Trench , which was created (or is still being created) by the subduction of the Nasca Plate under the South American Plate , is a maximum of 50 kilometers wide. The trench finds its northern extension in Peru ditch , behind the northeast foothills of Nascaschwelle starts.
Coordinates: 23 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 71 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W.
Ocean lows
Among the sea bottoms in the Atacama Graben include:
- Spencer F. Byrd depth (8065 m), northwest of the Chilean Antofagasta
- Spencer F. Byrd depth (8081 m), measurement on January 31, 2018 by the Atacamex expedition under the direction of the Director of the IMO (Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía), Osvaldo Ulloa
- Richardstief (7635 m)
- Bartholomewtief (7154 m)
- Sea depth (6867 m), west of the Chilean Punta Morro
- Sea depth (6866 m), west of the Peruvian Punta Coles
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Verónica Carreño: Científicos llegan por primera vez a lo más profundo del mar chileno . La Tercera , February 5, 2018, accessed February 7, 2018