Cayman Trough - Wikipedia
The Cayman Trough (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull-apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge, the Mid-Cayman Rise, on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea …
Cayman Trench | Map, Depth, & Facts | Britannica
Cayman Trench, submarine trench on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It extends from the Windward Passage at the southeastern tip of Cuba toward Guatemala.
Cayman Trench - Science and the Sea
Nov 17, 2019 · Parts of Earth’s crust there are moving apart. That’s created a long, deep trench, along with metallic “chimneys” that belch dark, super-heated water. This busy region is known as the Cayman Trench or Cayman Trough. It’s about a thousand miles long and 60 miles wide.
The Cayman Trench & Cayman Ridge: Exploring the Depth - LAC …
Jan 20, 2024 · The Cayman Trench, also known as the Cayman Trough, Bartlett Deep, or Bartlett Trough, is a submarine trench between Jamaica and the southeastern tip of Cuba. It is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and plummets to a …
Cayman Trough - Wikiwand
The Cayman Trough (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull-apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge, the Mid-Cayman Rise, on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea …
Cayman Trough - Openwaterpedia
The Cayman Trough, (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
How Deep is the Cayman Trench: Ocean’s Hidden Abyss
May 16, 2024 · The Cayman Trench, also known as the Cayman Trough, reaches depths of over 25,000 feet (7,620 meters). It is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and a remarkable feature of the ocean floor. How Does The Cayman Trench Compare To Mariana Trench?
World's deepest known undersea volcanic vents discovered
Apr 12, 2010 · Scientists have discovered the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents, known as 'black smokers', 3.1 miles (5000 meters) deep in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean. They found slender spires...
Depth and age in the Cayman Trough - ScienceDirect
Aug 1, 1986 · Caribbean plate boundaries are almost everywhere either strike-slip or convergent, so oceanic crust accreted at the spreading axis within the Cayman Trough provides information critical to determining the relative motions and tectonic interactions among the Caribbean and surrounding plates.
Considerable crustal thickness variations are inferred along Cayman Trough, a slow-spreading ocean basin in the Caribbean Sea, from modeling of the gravity field. The crust to a distance of 50 km from the spreading center is only 2–3 km thick in agreement with dredge and dive results.
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