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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 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...
trench
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...000 metres (19,700 ft). Trenches occur along the active margins...recorded was associated with a trench off Chile. The active margin...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 ...
Mariana Islands
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...stretching over 800km (500mi) of the Marianas Trench, c. 2400km (1500mi) e of the...and the islands of the Northern Marianas: Saipan, Tinian, Rota, Pagan...the islands were renamed the Marianas in 1668. The Northern Marianas...
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...began a descent to 36, 000 feet in a chasm of the Marianas Trench known as Challenger Deep. The bathyscaphe carried...
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...ship of the same name were able to sound the bottom of the Marianas Trench for the first time.
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...11,015 metres (36,130 ft) in the Marianas Trench is the deepest anywhere. Its total volume...31,350 ft) is in the Puerto Rico Trench. It is the only ocean with a deep...
underwater vehicles
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...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...
Auguste Piccard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...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...
Pacific Ocean
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...deep-sea plain. The greatest known depth (35,798.6 ft/10,911.5 m) is in the Challenger Deep in the Marianas trench c.250 mi (400 km) SW of Guam. Rising from the plain are swells (many of which are volcanic), seamounts, and...
oceanography
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...great depths, such as the U.S. bathyscaphe, Trieste II, which descended to 35,798 ft (10,294 m) in the Marianas Trench in 1960. Smaller, remote-controlled craft, such as the Jason, which was used to examine the sunken steamship...

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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.
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...
deep-sea trench
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences deep-sea trench Narrow, elongate, steep...adjacent deep-sea floor. Trenches are the deepest parts of...the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench where a depth of 11 022 m has been recorded. Trenches usually mark the position...
Philippine Plate
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...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.
back-arc basin
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...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.
Piccard, Auguste
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...lived to see his son, with Lt. Don Walsh, USN, set a new world record of 35,800 feet with the Trieste in the Marianas Trench of the Pacific Ocean on 23 January 1960. Father and son were working on a new ship called a mesoscaphe at the time...

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Rep. Sablan Introduces Marianas Trench Marine National Monument Visitor Facility Authorization Act
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/11/2009; 700+ words ; ...D-Saipan, has introduced the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument Visitor...to fulfill the purposes of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...text of the legislation follows: Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...
Marianas, Philippine trenches have huge natural gas deposit.
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 10/31/2003; 599 words ; ...engines, can be found in the Marianas and Philippine trenches, according to research by a...International Corp., said the Marianas and the Philippines have a deuterium...at its deepest point in the Marianas. This deposit, they added...
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MARIANAS TRENCH MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 1/6/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Occasion of the Designation of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific...s mantle, creating the Mariana Trench. Six of the archipelago's islands...hereby set apart and reserved as the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...
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 ; ...mantle, creating the Mariana Trench. Six of the archipelago...hydrothermically active. The Mariana Trench is approximately 940 nautical...set apart and reserved as the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...the accompanying map entitled Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...
Proclamation 8335-Establishment of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument
Magazine article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 1/12/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...mantle, creating the Mariana Trench. Six of the archipelago...hydrothermically active. The Mariana Trench is approximately 940 nautical...set apart and reserved as the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...accompanying map entitled "Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...
PRESIDENT BUSH PROCLAIMS ESTABLISHMENT OF MARIANAS TRENCH MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/6/2009; 700+ words ; ...mantle, creating the Mariana Trench. Six of the archipelago...hydrothermically active. The Mariana Trench is approximately 940 nautical...set apart and reserved as the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...accompanying map entitled "Marianas Trench Marine National Monument...
Squeezed to the extreme.(piezophiles in the Marianas Trench)
Magazine article from: Odyssey; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...of the deepest known spots on the ocean floor, the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean, seven miles (11 km) below...capable of withstanding water pressures as deep as the Marianas Trench and has brought back more than 180 different types...
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
Magazine 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...
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...
Statement on the Establishment of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument
Magazine 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...