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The Kermadec Trench is one of Earth's deepest oceanic trenches, reaching a depth of 10,047 metres (32,963 ft). Formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Indo-Australian Plate , it runs parallel with and to the east of the Kermadec Ridge and island arc .
Kermadec Trench, submarine trench in the floor of the South Pacific Ocean, about 750 mi (1,200 km) in length, forming the eastern boundary of the Kermadec Ridge. The two together comprise the southern half of the Tonga–Kermadec Arc, a structural feature completed to the north by the Tonga Trench.
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May 20, 2014 · Learn about the first mission to explore the hadal Kermadec trench system and the abyssal plain in the Southwestern Pacific, using the remotely operated vehicle Nereus. Read the updates from the scientists and the challenges they faced on board the R/V Thompson.
The Kermadec Trench (SW Pacific) is a hadal environment that provided data for the earliest appreciations of trench ecosystems (Wolff 1960) and where some of the most recent trench research has been (and is being) undertaken (Blankenship et al. 2006, Blankenship & Levin 2007; Jamieson et al. 2009abc, 2011). Also key to enabling HADES-Kermadec ...
Jan 1, 2020 · The Kermadec Trench is formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate below the Australian Plate. It is approximately 1195 km in length and 120 km wide, narrowing northwards to ~80 km wide. It is oriented roughly NNW–SSE and is partitioned from the Tonga Trench, extending northeast, by the subduction of the Louisville Seamount Chain at ~25°40 ...
- Alan J. Jamieson, Heather A. Stewart, Ashley A. Rowden, Malcolm R. Clark
- 2020
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The subducting Pacific Plate created the Kermadec Trench, an 8 km deep submarine trench, to the east of the islands. The islands lie along the undersea Kermadec Ridge, which runs southwest from the islands towards the North Island of New Zealand and northeast towards Tonga ( Kermadec-Tonga Arc ).
Jun 8, 2021 · In the Kermadec Trench, sediment was collected at four locations (K3–K6) along the trench axis at 9300–10,010 m depth covering a distance of ~200 km, and one adjacent abyssal site (K7; 6080 m...
