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Marianas trench

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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; a 1995 Japanese probe made what is probably the most accurate measurement of its depth.

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Marianas Trench

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Marianas Trench The oceanic trench, about 11 km deep, which marks the destructive margin between the Pacific and Philippine Plates.

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	Marianas, Philippine trenches have huge natural gas deposit. News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 10/31/2003
	Squeezed to the extreme.(piezophiles in the Marianas Trench) Magazine article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 11/1/2003
	Guam fishermen say no to Marianas monument. News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 10/23/2008