Lake basin

Map of the lake basin

Basin or sea basin are sub tank of big, between the continents lying ocean basins. With an average sea depth of 4000 meters, they are also called abyssal plains or deep-sea basins . Geologically, lake basins are characterized by the fact that they are underlaid by the oceanic crust .

Sea basins are bounded by submarine thresholds (sea ridges) or by continental shelves (or both). Small-scale depressions, the so-called sea lows, can lie within a sea basin . An elongated deep-sea channel (deep-sea trench) can extend between the continental shelf and the sea basin . Sea lows and deep sea trenches are sometimes up to 4000 m deeper than the actual lake basin. But there are also areas within a sea basin that are less deep than the basins themselves. If they are small-scale, they are referred to as deep sea mountains (English: seamounts ), if they reach larger dimensions, they are called submarine plateaus .

Lake basins and deep sea basins worldwide

The sea basins and deep sea basins of the oceans and their tributaries include (sorted alphabetically):

Arctic Ocean

To the basin of the Arctic Ocean ( Arctic Ocean , Arctic Ocean , Arctic Ocean or Arctic ) include:

Eurasian Basin (up to 5,449 m deep ( Litketief ); between the Lomonossow (Harris) threshold in the north, the Laptev Sea in the east, the New Siberian Islands , the Severnaya Zemlya - Svalbard line in the south and Greenland in the west, is crossed by the Gakkel Ridge in the northern Amundsen basin and the southern Nansen basin divided)

Canadian Basin (up to 4,994 m deep; between the Fletcher Ridge in the north, the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the east, Canada and Alaska in the south, the Chukchi Sea in the southeast and the Chukchi Threshold in the west)

Central Arctic Basin (also Makarov Basin, up to 3,290 m deep; between the Lomonossow (Harris) Sill in the north, Ellesmere Island in the east, the Fletcher Ridge in the south and the junction of the Canadian and Central Arctic Basin in the west)

Atlantic Ocean

The sea basins of the Atlantic Ocean (Atlantic) include:

→ Agulhas Basin (from the Indian Ocean section below )

Algerian-Provençal Basin (up to 3,255 m deep; it is located in the west of the European Mediterranean between France in the north, Corsica and Sardinia in the east, Algeria in the south and Spain in the west; the Balearic Islands lie within this basin )

Angola Basin [to 5,841 m deep; between the threshold Guinea to the northwest, in Africa lying Lower Guinea emerging in the East, the Walvis Ridge in the south and the island of St. Helena (behind the South Atlantic ridge rises) to the west]

Argentine Basin [up to 6,202 m deep; between the Rio Grande Sill in the north, the South Atlantic Ridge in the east, South Georgia behind the 8,264 m deep ( meteor depth ) South Sandwich Trench in the southeast, the Falkland Islands in the southwest and the South American continent in the west]

Atlantic-Indian South Polar Basin (up to 5,872 m deep; lies at the junction of the South Atlantic and South Indic between the southern foothills of the South Atlantic Ridge with Bouvet and the Atlantic-Indian Ridge in the north, the Kerguelen-Gaußberg Ridge in the east, the Antarctica in the south and the South Sandwich Islands in the west; the latter islands are to the west of the South Sandwich Trench , which is up to 8,264 m deep )

Baffin Basin (up to 2,377 m deep; forms the center of North American Baffin Bay ; between Greenland in the north and east, the Davis Strait in the south, Baffin Island in the west and the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the northwest)

Brazilian basin (up to 6,537 m deep; consists of the large northern and the small southern Brazilian basin ; between the southern branch of the North Atlantic Ridge in the north, the Romanche Trench up to 7,730 m deep in the northeast, the northern branch of the South Atlantic Ridge in the east, the Rio Grande Threshold in the south and Brazil in the west); The Trindade threshold with Trindade runs across this basin in a west-east direction

Greenland Basin [up to 4,846 m deep; lies in the European Arctic Ocean between Spitsbergen in the northeast, Bear Island in the east, the Lofot Basin behind the Iceland-Jan-Mayen-Schwelle in the southeast, the Norwegian Basin and Jan Mayen in the south and the Denmark Strait in the southwest and Greenland in the west]

Guinea basin (up to 5695 m deep, between the on the African past continent Upper Guinea threshold in the north and the Lower Guinea threshold in the east of Guinea threshold in the Southeast and the South Atlantic back in the southwest)

Guyana Basin (up to 6,671 m deep; the southern extension of the North American Basin ; between the North American Basin in the north, the North Atlantic Ridge in the east, the northeast of South America in the south and the Lesser Antilles in the west)

Hudson Basin (up to 218 m deep; forms the center of North American Hudson Bay ; lies within the Canadian Shield )

Iberian Basin (up to 5,925 m deep; between the Biscay threshold in the north, Portugal in the east, the Azores threshold in the south and the North Atlantic ridge in the west; the Azores are at the junction of the two last-mentioned thresholds )

Ionic Basin [up to 5,267 m deep; deepest point in the European Mediterranean ( calypso deep ) in the Ionian Sea between Greece in the northeast, the island of Crete and the Levantine Basin in the east, Libya in the south, Sicily in the west and southern Italy in the northwest]

Irminger Basin (the eastern part of the Labrador Basin between the Denmark Strait in the north, the Reykjanes Ridge in the east and the east coast of Greenland )

Iceland Basin (up to 5,047 m deep; between Iceland in the north, the North Atlantic Ridge in the west and the Western European Basin in the southwest)

Canarian Basin (up to 6,407 m deep; consists of its smaller northern basin and the larger southern basin; between the Azorean sill in the north, the Canary Islands in the east, the Cape Verde sill in the south and the North Atlantic Ridge in the west; across this basin runs in west-east Towards the Canary Islands threshold , at the east end of which the Canaries rise)

Cape Basin (up to 5,415 m deep; between the whale ridge in the northwest, the southern tip of Africa in the northeast and east, the Cape Sill in the southeast, the Atlantic-Indian Ridge in the south and the South Atlantic Ridge in the southwest and west)

Cape Verde Basin (up to 7,292 m deep; between the Cape Verde Sill in the north, Cape Verde in the east, the Sierra Leone Sill in the southeast and the North Atlantic Ridge in the southwest and west)

Caribbean Basin (up to 5,649 m deep; also called Venezuelan Basin ; it is particularly located in the eastern part of the Caribbean Sea ; between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico in the north, the Lesser Antilles in the east and southeast, the Gulf of Venezuela in the south and the western part of the Caribbean in the West)

Levant Basin [up to 4,517 m deep; houses the Levantine Sea in the easternmost part of the European Mediterranean ; bounded by the Cyprus Arch in the north, the Levantine Shelf in the east, the Egyptian Shelf in the south and the Mediterranean Ridge in the northwest and west; geologically divided into a western part (Herodotus Basin, underlain by the world's oldest known oceanic crust, at 340 million years old) and an eastern part (Levantic Basin in the narrower sense), separated from each other by the Eratosthenes Threshold ( Eratosthenes Continental Bloc , Eratosthenes Seamount ) ]

Labrador Basin (up to 4,459 m deep; between Greenland in the north, the Denmark Strait in the northeast, the North Atlantic Ridge in the east, the Newfoundland Basin in the south, Newfoundland in the southeast and Labrador in the east)

Lofot Basin (up to 3,378 m deep; located in the Northern European Sea between Bear Island in the north, Norway in the east, southeast and south, the Jan Mayen threshold in the southwest, Jan Mayen in the west and the Greenland Basin in the northwest)

Marmara Basin (up to 1,355 m deep; forms the center of the Eurasian Marmara Sea )

Mexican basin (up to 4,375 m deep; it is located in the central Gulf of Mexico )

Newfoundland Basin (up to 5,883 m deep; between the Labrador Basin in the north, the North Atlantic Ridge in the east, the North American Basin in the southwest and Newfoundland in the west)

North American Basin [up to 6,995 m deep; it includes about the Sargasso Sea with Bermuda ; between Newfoundland in the north, the Newfoundland Basin in the northeast, the North Atlantic Ridge in the east Puerto Rico behind the approximately 8,400 m deep Puerto Rico Trench ( Milwaukeetief = deepest point of the Atlantic ) in the south, the Bahamas in the southwest and North America in the west]

Norwegian channel (up to 725 m deep; contains the deepest part of the North Sea in the Skagerrak ; between southern Norway in the north, the Swedish coast in the east, the Kattegat in the southeast, the Danish double island Vendsyssel / Thy in the south, the actual North Sea in the west and the Norwegian Basin in the northwest)

Norwegian Basin (up to 4,020 m deep; located in the European Arctic Ocean between the Greenland Basin in the north, the Jan Mayen Sill in the northeast, Norway in the east, the North Sea and the Shetland Islands in the south, the Faroe Islands in the southwest, Iceland in the west and Jan Mayen in the Northwest)

Baltic Sea Basin [up to 459 m deep ( Landsort deep : 459 m; Gotland deep : 249 m); between the Swedish east coast near Stockholm in the north-west and west and the Estonian - Latvian coast in the east and south-east; Gotland lies within this basin]

Black Basin (up to 2,244 m deep; forms the center of the Eurasian Black Sea )

Sierra Leone Basin (up to 6,040 m deep, between the adjoining on the African continent Upper Guinea threshold in the northeast of Liberia emerging in the East, the northern foothills of the South Atlantic back and to 7,730 m deep Romanche Trench in the south, the southern slopes of the North Atlantic Ridge in the southwest and the Sierra Leone threshold in the west)

South Antilles Basin (up to 7,756 m deep; between the Falkland Islands in the northwest, South Georgia in the north, the South Sandwich Islands in the east, the South Orkney Islands in the south, West Antarctica in the southwest, the Pacific South Polar Basin in the west and the southern tip of the South American continent in the northwest)

Tyrrhenian Basin (up to 3,758 m deep; it is located in the European Mediterranean or in the Tyrrhenian Sea between Italy in the north and east, Sicily in the south, Tunisia in the southeast and Corsica and Sardinia in the west)

Venezuelan Basin (see Caribbean Basin )

Western European Basin (up to 6,325 m deep; between the Iceland Basin in the northwest, Ireland and Great Britain in the northeast, northern Spain in the southeast, the Biscay threshold in the south and the North Atlantic Ridge in the west)

Yucatan Basin (up to 4,901 m deep; lies in the northwest of the Caribbean Sea ; between Yucatán in the northwest, Cuba in the northeast, Jamaica in the southeast, Honduras in the southwest and Belize in the west; in the southeast it borders on the 7,680 m deep Cayman Rift )

Indian Ocean

The sea basins of the Indian Ocean (Indic) include:

Agulhas Basin (up to 5,742 m deep; between Cape Agulhas on the southern tip of Africa in the north, the Crozet Swell in the east, the Atlantic-Indian Ridge in the south and the Cape Swell in the west)
Andaman Basin (up to 4,198 m deep; between Myanmar in the north, Thailand in the east, Sumatra in the south, the Nicobar Islands in the southwest and the Andamans in the west)
Arabian Basin (up to 5,875 m deep; between the Arabian Peninsula in the north-west, India in the north-east, the Laccadives and the Maldives in the east or south-east and the Carlsberg ridge in the west)
Atlantic-Indian-South polar basin (see above at Atlantic )
Indian South Polar Basin (up to 5,455 m deep; also known as the East Indian South Polar Basin or Indian-Antarctic Basin ; between the Macquaries Threshold in the northeast and east, the Antarctic in the south, the Kerguelen-Gaußberg Ridge in the west and the southern foothills of the Central Indian Ridge in the north )

Keeling Basin (up to 6,335 m deep; between Sumatra in the north, Java behind the 7,290 m deep Sunda Trench in the northeast, Christmas Island in the east, the Cocos Islands and the western part of the Northwest Australian Basin in the south and the Bengali threshold in the west and northwest)

Madagascar Basin (up to 6,400 m deep; between the Mascarene Basin and the Mascarene Ridge with the southern Mascarene Mountains in the north, the Central Indian Ridge in the northeast, the Southwest Indian Basin in the southeast, the Crozet Sill in the south, the Natal Basin in the southwest and the southern part of the island of Madagascar in the northwest)

Mascarene Basin (up to 5,322 m deep; between the Seychelles in the north, the Mascarenes on the Mascarene Ridge in the east, the Madagascar Basin in the south and Madagascar in the west)

Natal Basin (up to 5,779 m deep; between Madagascar in the north, the Madagascar Basin in the northeast, the Southwest Indian Basin in the east, the Prince Edward Islands ( Crozet Sill ) in the south, the Agulhas Basin in the southwest and Southern Africa in the west)

North Australian Basin [up to 6,840 m deep ( Berlintief ); between Sumbawa and Sumba behind the 7,290 m deep Sunda Trench in the north, the Timor Sea in the east, northwest Australia in the southeast and south, the northwest Australian basin in the southwest and Christmas Island in the west]

Northwest Australian Basin [up to 7,001 m deep; between Christmas Island and Java in the north, which lies behind the 7,290 m deep Sunda Trench , the North Australian Basin in the northeast, Western Australia in the east, the Western Australian Basin in the southeast, the K XVIII ridge in the south, the southern part of the Central Indian Basin and the Bengali threshold in the west and the Keeling basin and the coconut islands in the northwest]

Oman Basin (up to 4,122 m deep; the northwest part of the Arabian Basin ; this basin includes the Gulf of Oman and the sea areas of the Indic off the east coast of Oman )

East-Indian southern polar basin (see Indian southern polar basin )

Red Basin (up to 2,604 m deep; forms the center of the Red Sea )

Somali Basin (up to 5,825 m deep; between the Socotra Islands in the north, the Carlsberg ridge in the east, the Seychelles in the south and the Horn of Africa in the northwest)

South Australian Basin [up to 5,998 m deep ( Jeffreytief ); between Australia in the north, Tasmania in the east, the Tasman sill in the southeast, the Macquaries sill in the south, the southeasternmost branch - South Indian Ridge - the Central Indian Ridge in the southwest and the Southeast Indian Basin in the west]

Southeast Indian Basin [up to 7,100 m deep ( Dordrecht deep = deepest point of the Diamantina Fracture Zone ); between the Western Australian Basin in the north, Southeastern Australia in the northeast, the South Australian Basin in the east, the South Indian Ridge in the south, the Central Indian Ridge in the southwest and the K XVIII Ridge in the northwest]

Southwest Indian Basin (up to 5,605 m deep; between the Madagascar Basin in the north, the Central Indian Ridge in the north and east, the Kerguelen in the southeast and the Crozet Islands in the southwest)

Western Australian Basin [up to 5,850 m deep; between the Northwest Australian Basin in the northwest and north, western Australia in the east, the Southeast Indian Basin in the south and the K XVIII ridge in the west]

Central Indian basin (up to 5,386 m deep; between Sri Lanka in the north, the Bengali threshold in the east, the K XVIII ridge in the southeast, the central Indian ridge in the southwest and west and the Tschagos ridge with Tschagos , the Maldives and the Laccadives in the northwest)

Pacific Ocean

Among the Seebnecken of the Pacific Ocean ( Pacific , Pacific Ocean or Big Ocean ) include:

Aleutian Basin (see Bering Basin )

Aru Basin (up to 3,680 m deep; the Arafura Sea lies in the north between the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea in the north, the Aru Islands in the east, the actual Arafura Sea in the south, the Tanimbar Islands in the southwest and the Kei Islands (Kai Islands) in the West)

Bacan Basin (up to 4,972 m deep; located in the Malay Archipelago in the Molucca Sea between the eastern foothills of Sulawesi in the west, the northeast foothills of this island in the northwest, Bacan in the northeast and east, Obi in the southeast, the Seram Sea and the Sula Islands in the south and Peleng in the southwest)

Banda pools (up to 5,801 m deep; consists of the up to 5,801 m deep North Banda basin and up to 5,400 m deep South Banda pool ; to the latter, on the east, the to 7,440 m deep Weber depth of; is located in the Malay Archipelago in Banda between Sulawesi in Northwest, Seram in the northeast, the Tanimbar Islands in the southeast and Timor in the south)

Bering Basin (also called Aleutian Basin ; up to 4,096 m deep; especially forms the southern part of the Bering Sea off the Aleutians )

Buru Basin (up to 5,318 m deep; the Seram Sea is located in the Malay Archipelago between Obi in the north, Misool in the east, Seram in the south, Buru in the southwest and the Sula Islands in the west)

Celebes Basin (up to 6,218 m deep; also called Sulawesi Basin; includes the Celebes Sea in the Malay Archipelago between the Philippine Sulu Archipelago and Mindanao in the north, the Sangihe Islands in the east, the Indonesian Sulawesi in the south and the east coast of Borneo, which belongs to the latter state in the West)

Chile's pool (up to 5,470 m deep, between the Nazcaschwelle in the northwest, the Atacama trench in the northeast and east, and the Juan Fernandez back to the southwest)

Fanning Basin (up to 8,584 m deep; a southern part of the North Pacific Basin ; between the Markus Neckar Ridge in the north, for example the Johnston Atoll and Fanning Island on the Fanning Ridge in the east, the Society Islands in the southeast, the Cook Islands in the south , Samoa and the Phoenix Islands in the southwest and the Marshall Islands in the northwest; in the northwest of this basin is the 7,315 m deep Marshall Trench east of the islands of the same name and in the middle part of the basin is the equally deep Phoenix Trench )

Fiji Basin [up to 6,150 m deep; consists of the North Fiji Basin up to 6,150 m deep and the South Fiji Basin up to 5,303 m deep (the latter is adjacent to the Fiji Basin in the northwest , which is also up to 6,150 m deep), which lie north and south of the Hunting Threshold ; between the southern reaches of the North Pacific Basin in the north, the Ellica Islands in the northeast, Fiji in the east, the Kermadec Islands on the Kermadec-Tonga Ridge in the southeast, the North Island of New Zealand in the south, the New Caledonian Sill in the southeast, Vanuatu in the west and the Santa- Cruz Islands in the northwest]

Flore pool (up to 6,961 m deep, located in the Malay Archipelago in the Flores Sea between Sulawesi to the north, the Banda Basin in the East Flores in the south, Sumbawa in the southwest and the Java Sea in the west)

Guatemala Basin (up to 6,276 m deep; part of the Central Pacific Basin ; lies southwest of the 6,662 m deep Central America Trench , behind which lies the Pacific coast of, for example, Mexico , Guatemala , El Salvador , Nicaragua and Costa Rica )

Japanese basin (up to 4,225 m deep; between Russia in the north; Japan in the east and south and the Korean peninsula in the west)

Carolina Basin (up to 6,950 m deep; consists of the West and East Carolina Basins divided by the New Guinea Sill ; between the Carolines in the north, the Marshall Islands in the northeast, the Kiribati in the east, Tuvalu and Fiji in the southeast, the Santa Cruz Islands and the Solomon Islands , New Britain and New Guinea in the south, the Morotaibecken in the southwest, the Palau Islands behind to 8138 m deep Palau trench in the west and the Ngulu - and Yap Islands behind to 8597 m deep Yap trench in the northwest)

Coral pool (up to 4718 m deep; it is located east of the Great Barrier Reef between the eastern end of New Guinea in the north, the Solomon Basin in the northeast, the Neuhebridenbecken the east, New Caledonia in the South East, the Ostaustralischen basin in the south and Australia in the southwest and west)

Mariana Basin [up to 6,674 m deep; part of the North Pacific Basin ; It is located between the Marcus Island in the north, the Wake Island in the northeast, the Marshall Islands and the Marshall Basin in the southeast, the Carolines in the south and the Mariana Islands behind the Mariana Trench ( Witja Depression 1 = deepest point in the Pacific and the world's oceans ) in the 11,034 m deep West]

Marshall Basin (up to 5,634 m deep; between the Marshall Islands in the north, the Gilbert Islands in the east, the North Fiji Basin in the southeast, the Solomon Islands in the southwest and the Carolines in the west)

Morotai Basin (up to 4,930 m deep; between Morotai in the northwest, the up to 10,540 m deep Philippinengraben ( Galatheatief ) in the north, the West Carolina Basin in the northeast and east, Waigeo in the southeast and Halmahera in the southwest)

Neuhebridenbecken (up to 6,765 m deep, between December 7388 m deep Santa Cruz ditch behind the Santa Cruz Basin in the north, the Santa Cruz Islands in the northeast, Vanuatu to the east, the Fiji Basin behind to 7570 m deep Neuhebridengraben in the south, New Caledonia in the southwest and the coral basin in the west)

North Fiji Basin (up to 6,150 m deep; see Fiji Basin )

North Pacific Basin (up to 7,407 m deep; sometimes also called the North Pacific Large Basin ; encompasses almost the entire North Pacific and extends south to over the equator ; it lies between the Aleutians behind the Aleutian Trench, up to 7,678 m deep , in the north, North America in the northeast and East, the Central Pacific Basin and Fanning Island in the southeast, the Phoenix Islands in the south, the Ellice Islands and the Gilbert Islands in the southwest, the Marshall Islands and the Wak Island lying on the Marcus Necker Ridge in the west and the northwest Pacific Ridge in the Northwest; the central archipelago are the Hawaiian Islands)

North Pacific Large Basin (up to 7,407 m deep; see North Pacific Basin )

Northwest Pacific Basin [up to 7,276 m deep; between the Kuril behind to 10,542 m deep Kuril-Kamchatka Trench ( Witjastief 3 ) to the northwest, Kamchatka to the north, the Northwest Pacific back to the east, the Marcus-Necker-back in the South and Japan behind to 10,554 m deep Japan Trench ( Ramapotief ) in the west]

Okhotsk Basin (up to 5,210 m deep; especially forms the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, off the Kuril Islands )

East Australian Basin (up to 5,943 m deep ( Thomson Deep ); is also sometimes called Tasman Basin ; between the coral basin in the north, the New Zealand Ridge in the east, the South Island of New Zealand in the southeast, the Tasman Sill in the southwest and Tasmania and Australia in the west)

East China Basin (up to 2,719 m deep; particularly forms the southern part of the East China Sea off the Ryūkyū Islands )

East Carolina Basin (up to 6,950 m deep; see Carolina Basin )

East Pacific South Polar Basin (see below Pacific South Polar Basin )

Pacific Südpolarbecken (up to 5,399 m deep, between the southern slopes of the East Pacific Rise in the north, the Easter threshold and the southern tip of South America in the Northeast, which is already the Atlantic Ocean belonging Südantillenbecken in the East, the West Antarctic in the south east, the actual Antarctica to the South and the South Pacific back in the west and northwest)

Peru's pool (up to 5298 m deep, between the Galapagos Islands in the north, the north-central South America in the Northeast, the Juan Fernandez back to the Juan Fernández Islands and San Félix and the to 8064 m deep Atacama ditch in the east, the Easter Threshold in the South and the East Pacific Ridge in the West)

Philippines Basin (up to 7,559 m deep; between Japan in the north, the volcanic islands and the Mariana Islands in the east, the Palau Islands in the south, the Philippines behind the up to 10,540 m deep Philippines Trench ( Galathea Depth ) in the west and Taiwan and the Ryūkyū Islands behind the 7,507 m deep Ryukyu Trench in the northwest)

Phoenix Basin (up to 7,589 m deep; the southernmost part of the North Pacific Basin ; merges into the Fanning Basin in the north and lies between Howland Island in the northeast, the Phoenix Islands and the Tokelau Atolls in the east, Samoa in the southeast, the Ellice Islands in the southwest and the Gilbert Islands in the west)

Solomon Islands Basin (up to 5,419 m deep, between the Solomon Islands in the (north) east, the New Hebrew Basin in the southeast, the coral basin in the south and Australia in the southwest, the eastern end of New Guinea in the west and New Britain in the northwest; part of this basin is the 9.142 m deep planetary depth in the Neupommern-Bougainville-Graben )

Santa Cruz Basin (up to 4,690 m deep, between the Solomon Islands behind to 7388 m deep Santa Cruz ditch in the northwest, the Santa Cruz Islands in the Neuhebridenrücken the east, the Neuhebridenbecken the south and the coral pools in West)

Sawubecken (up to 3497 m deep; in the Savu Sea , between Flores in the north, Timor in the East, Sawu in the south and Sumba in the west)

South China Basin (up to 5,559 m deep; located in the South China Sea between China in the north, Taiwan in the northeast, the Philippines in the east, Brunei and Malaysia in the south and Vietnam in the west)

South Fiji Basin (up to 5,303 m deep; see Fiji Basin )

South Pacific Basin (up to 6,250 m deep; sometimes also called the South Pacific Large Basin ; includes almost the entire Southwest Pacific between the Cook Islands in the north, the Tubuai Islands in the northeast, the East Pacific Ridge in the east, the South Pacific Ridge and the 8,582 m deep Byrdtief in the South, New Zealand in the southwest and the Kermadec Islands and the Tonga Islands behind the up to 10,047 m deep Kermadec Trench and the up to 10,882 m deep Tonga Trench ( Witja Depression 2 ) on the Kermadec-Tonga Ridge in the west)

South Pacific Large Basin (up to 6,245 m deep; see South Pacific Basin )

Sulawesi Basin (see Celebes Basin )

Sulubecken (up to 7022 m deep; includes the Sulu Sea in the Malay archipelago between the Philippine islands of Palawan to the northwest, Panay and Mindoro in the north, Negros and Mindanao in the east and the Sulu archipelago in the south and to Malaysia belonging northeast coast of Borneo in the southwest)

Tasman Basin (see East Australian Basin )

West Carolina Basin (up to 5,798 m deep; see Carolina Basin )

Central Pacific Basin (up to 7,022 m deep; sometimes also called the Central Pacific Large Basin ; covers almost the entire Central Pacific between the North Pacific Basin in the northwest, Mexico and large parts of Central America behind the 6,662 m deep Central American Trench in the northeast, the East Pacific Ridge in the southeast, the Tuamotu Archipelago in the southwest and, for example, Fanning Island on the Fanning Ridge in the west)

Central Pacific Large Basin (up to 7,022 m deep; see Central Pacific Basin )

Southern ocean

To the basin of the Southern Ocean ( Antarctic Ocean , Southern Arctic , Antarctic Ocean or Antarctica ), traditionally the Atlantic , Indian Ocean and Pacific attributed sea areas south of 60 ° south latitude, include this lake basin:

→ Atlantic-Indian-Southern Polar Basin (from the Atlantic Ocean section above )
→ Indian South Polar Basin (from the Indian Ocean section above )
→ South Antilles Basin (from the Atlantic Ocean section above )
→ Pacific South Polar Basin (from the Pacific Ocean section above )

References and comments

↑ Roi Granot: Palaeozoic oceanic crust preserved beneath the eastern Mediterranean. Nature Geoscience. 2016, doi: 10.1038 / ngeo2784 (advance online publication)

↑ Heather A. Stewart, Alan J. Jamieson: The five deeps: The location and depth of the deepest place in each of the world's oceans . In: Earth-Science Reviews 197, October 2019, 102896, doi: 10.1016 / j.earscirev.2019.102896 .

↑ ^a ^b The limits of merging the North and Central Pacific Basin are especially between Hawaii on the Hawaii-back and the Mexican Baja California not clearly fixed, especially as the two deep-sea large pool in this area of the Pacific Ocean seamlessly - without further swelling or back - interlock. However, the Central Pacific Basin to the west and a. clearly delimited from the North Pacific Basin by the massive Fanning Ridge with Fanning Island .

[RGranot-1] Roi Granot: Palaeozoic oceanic crust preserved beneath the eastern Mediterranean. Nature Geoscience. 2016, doi: 10.1038 / ngeo2784 (advance online publication)

[2] Heather A. Stewart, Alan J. Jamieson: The five deeps: The location and depth of the deepest place in each of the world's oceans . In: Earth-Science Reviews 197, October 2019, 102896, doi: 10.1016 / j.earscirev.2019.102896 .