I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

At ocean-ocean convergences, one plate usually dives beneath the other, forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth. These types of ...

and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault lines. The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ocean trench, called the Mariana Trench. Located east of Guam ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth. So deep that if you dropped Mount Everest inside, its peak would still be more than a kilometer ...

A new ocean is in the process of forming, a consequence of tectonic movements that are splitting the African continent. This event, which could happen in the next five to ten million years, will mark ...

The Mariana Trench forms where two tectonic plates (jigsaw-puzzle-shaped pieces of Earth's crust) crunch into each other. As the plates collide in slow motion, the edges push downward into a V shape, ...