Looking for info on the Mariana Trench

[WV_Woman]

The only thing I can find online about the Mariana Trench is some lame squib on yahoo from some encyclopedia.

I’m fascinated with this area. Anyone know of any books/websites/articles/etc?

[Reeder]

It’s actually the Marianas Trench.

http://www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/marianas/trench.html

[Monty]

A neat source for geographical information is http://www.noaa.gov

[astro]

*Originally posted by Reeder *
**It’s actually the Marianas Trench.

http://www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/marianas/trench.html **

I thought the same thing but Encarta online says Mariana Trench . The Islands above the trench are the Marianas Islands

The 14 tropical islands comprising the Northern Marianas chain stretch across 400 miles in the western Pacific Ocean, just adjacent to the famed Marianas Trench, with the world’s greatest known ocean depth of 35,810 feet. Volcanic in origin, the Marianas lie approximately 1,300 miles south of Tokyo, 1,400 miles east of Manila, 3,200 miles west of Honolulu, and 2,900 miles north of Sydney

Mariana Trench, depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean, the deepest seafloor depression in the world. It is located just east of the Mariana Islands in the western part of the ocean basin. The Mariana Trench is an arc-shaped valley extending generally northeast to southwest for 2,550 km (1,580 mi); its average width is 70 km (40 mi). .

Want to go there? Take a ride on a deep sea submersible -Marianas Trench Dive -[url="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/marianas.html"16.9 mbyte .mov version (as seen on the History Channel).
Also see the “Fly-over,” choose the image above to view an .mpg

The .mov file above was produced by Dr. Peter Sloss of NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Marine Geology & Geophysics Division, as seen on the History Channel.