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Marianas trench
Marianas trench   Marianas trough, or Marianas deep , elongated depression on the Pacific Ocean floor, 210 mi (338 km) SW of Guam. It is the deepest (35,798.6 ft/10,911.5 m at the Challenger Deep) known depression on the earth's surface. A U.S. navy bathyscape reached its bottom in 1960; ... Read more
Auguste Piccard
Auguste Piccard , 1884-1962, Swiss physicist, b. Basel. He became a professor at the Univ. of Brussels in 1922. He and his twin brother Jean Felix (d. 1963) are known for their balloon ascents into the stratosphere; in Aug., 1932, Auguste ascended to 55,500 ft (16,916 m). He was a collaborator with ... Read more
Challenger expedition
Challenger expedition British oceanographic expedition under the direction of the Scottish professor Charles Wyville Thompson and the British naturalist Sir John Murray. Taking place from 1872 to 1876, it opened the era of descriptive oceanography . The team sailed in the converted 18-gun corvette... Read more
oceanography
oceanography study of the seas and oceans. The major divisions of oceanography include the geological study of the ocean floor (see plate tectonics ) and features; physical oceanography, which is concerned with the physical attributes of the ocean water, such as currents and temperature; chemical ... Read more
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean largest and deepest ocean, c.70,000,000 sq mi (181,300,000 sq km), occupying about one third of the earth's surface; named by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan ; the southern part is also known as the South Sea. Physical Geography Extent and Seas The Pacific Ocean extend... Read more
submersible
submersible small, mobile undersea research vessel capable of functioning in the ocean depths. Development of a great variety of submersibles during the later 1950s and 1960s came about as a result of improved technology and in response to a demonstrated need for the capability to visit the ocean d... Read more
ocean
ocean interconnected mass of saltwater covering 70.78% of the surface of the earth, often called the world ocean. It is subdivided into four (or five) major units that are separated from each other in most cases by the continental masses. See also oceanography . The World Ocean Of the ma... Read more

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Marianas trench
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition   Marianas trough, or Marianas deep , elongated depression on the Pacific Ocean floor, 210 mi (338 km) SW of Guam. It is the deepest (35,798.6 ft/10,911.5 m at the Challenger Deep) known depression on the earth's surface. A U.S. navy bathyscape... Read more
trench
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...Offshore lies a series of trenches. The older the ocean crust, the deeper the trench, because the crust is colder...The deepest of all is the Marianas Trench. Scientists aboard HMS Challenger...deep. The seabed of each trench is inhabited by a ... Read more
Mariana Islands
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...over 800km (500mi) of the Marianas Trench, c. 2400km (1500mi) e of...the islands of the Northern Marianas: Saipan, Tinian, Rota, Pagan...islands were renamed the Marianas in 1668. The Northern Marianas came under German control... Read more
Jacques Piccard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Piccard's father to the deepest spot on earth, the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, in a record seven-mile descent...began a descent to 36, 000 feet in a chasm of the Marianas Trench known as Challenger Deep. The bathyscaphe carried... Read more
Challenger, HMS
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...took hundreds of soundings , including the first one of the Marianas Trench , also making the discovery that there were mid-ocean ridges...research ship of the same name were able to sound the bottom of the Marianas Trench for the first time. Read more
bathyscaphe
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...for that of a cylindrical tank beneath which was a spherical observation chamber. In 1958 this was acquired by the US Navy and, after extensive reconstruction, touched bottom at 10,915 metres (35,812 ft) in the Marianas Trench on 25 January 1960. Read more
Auguste Piccard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...design. In 1960 Jacques Piccard, with U.S. Navy Lieutenant Donald Walsh, descended to 35,800 ft (10,912 m) in the Marianas Trench . Jacques's son Jacques Piccard, 1958-, is also a balloonist; in Mar., 1999, he and Briton Brian Jones became the... Read more
island arcs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...some deeper root; and, since all surface evidence in trenches and island arcs shows that they are under tension, it...progressively deeper as one went from the ocean side of the trench to the volcanic arc, that the idea of a relatively simple steeply dipping thrust plane extending from near the trench to ... Read more
underwater vehicles
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...vehicles, built the bathyscaphe Trieste , in which his son Jacques, together with Don Walsh, dived to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in January 1960; an achievement repeated in 1995 by a Japanese ROV. In the early 1960s deep submersibles, often referred... Read more
oceans
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...continents. Here occur the deepest depths in trenches of over 6,000 metres (20,000 ft). The...depth of 11,015 metres (36,130 ft) in the Marianas Trench is the deepest anywhere. Its total volume...metres (31,350 ft) is in the Puerto Rico Trench. It is the only ocean with a deep-water... Read more

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Marianas Trench
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology Marianas Trench The oceanic trench , about 11 km deep, which marks the destructive margin between the Pacific and Philippine Plates. Read more
Marianas
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences Marianas Trench The oceanic trench which marks the destructive margin between the Pacific Plates and Philippine Plates . The trench is about 11 km deep, and there is evidence of little or no accretionary... Read more
deep-sea trench
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences deep-sea trench Narrow, elongate, steep-sided and often...deeper than the adjacent deep-sea floor. Trenches are the deepest parts of the ocean...that of the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench where a depth of 11 022 m has been recorded. Trenches usually mark the position of a destructive... Read more
Philippine Plate
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...lithospheric plates , the Philippine Plate is surrounded by subduction zones (the Ryukyu, Philippine, Marianas, and Izu-Bonin), and is splitting along the Marianas Islands, in the back-arc of the Marianas Trench-arc system, at about 60 mm/year. Read more
back-arc basin
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...oriented parallel to the compression in a destructive margin . Back-arc basins have been classified into retro-arc basins and inter-arc basins . Examples include the Japan Sea (between Japan and Korea) and the basins west of the Marianas Trench. Read more

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Proclamation 8335--establishment of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument.(Week Ending Friday, January 9, 2009)(Speech)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 1/12/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Mariana Islands, and the Mariana Trench contain objects of scientific...Mariana Islands, and the Mariana Trench for the care and management...apart and reserved as the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...accompanying map entitled Marianas Trench Marine National Monument ... Read more
Statement on the establishment of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument.(Week Ending Friday, January 9, 2009)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 1/12/2009; 700+ words ; ...Papahanaumokuakea Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) was established. On this occasion of the establishment of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National... Read more
Remarks on signing proclamations to establish the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument.(Week Ending Friday, January 9, 2009)(Speech)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 1/12/2009; 700+ words ; ...national monuments. The first is--will establish the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument. At the heart of this protected area will be much of the Marianas Trench--the site of the deepest point on Earth--and the surrounding... Read more
Marianas islanders oppose western Pacific monument: Bush seeks to close 115,000 square miles.(Around the coasts)(George W. Bush)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: National Fisherman; 1/1/2009; ; 275 words ; ...opposition has risen from Mariana Trench islands and crashed into President...executive order proposal for a Marianas national marine monument. Located...Pacific Ocean, the no-fishing Marianas monument would encompass 115...the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands. The region is managed... Read more
Western Pacific.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)
Magazine article from: National Fisherman; 3/1/2009; 140 words ; ...seabed set aside as marine protected areas in the world. The first is the Marianas Marine National Monument; one of the main components will be the Marianas Trench, which contains the deepest places on earth and at its deepest is deeper than... Read more
No, I didn't say "simulated"!(search and rescue)
Magazine article from: Approach; 4/1/2001; ; 567 words ; ...thing, you get lots of SAR. The island, 30 miles long and 8 miles wide, is a tropical paradise, located along the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific. It is a major vacation spot for people from Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries. Unfortunately... Read more
South Pacific - the facts: ... tropical storms are hitting the South Pacific more often - but they cause less permanent damage than the global market ...
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 6/1/1997; 668 words ; ...ocean (1) highest proportion of endemic species per unit of land area or per human inhabitant deepest marine trench -- the Marianas Trench (at 11,000 metres almost half as deep again as Mount Everest is high) (1) most diverse oceanic island chain... Read more
Bush's deep blue legacy.(Editorials)(He sets aside 200,000 square miles of Pacific)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 1/7/2009; 528 words ; ...Islands, including the Mariana Trench, the deepest canyon in the world...Wake Island and Rose Atoll. The Marianas Marine National Monument generated...surface waters above the Mariana Trench, and the size of the Marianas monument was smaller than originally... Read more
The death of outrage?(author Bill Bennett)(Interview)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/14/1998; 700+ words ; ...talked to some Democratic senators whom I know and I've worked with. As Imus said, they're all in diving bells off the Marianas Trench. Unreachable. Moynihan gave us defining deviancy down; now we're defining Democrats down. Where's Lieberman? Where... Read more