Kuril Islands — or Kurile Islands [ko͞o′ril, ko͞o rēl′] chain of islands belonging to Russia, between N Hokkaido, Japan, and Kamchatka Peninsula: formerly Japanese (1875 1945): c. 6,000 sq mi (15,540 sq km) * * * Archipelago, eastern Russia. It extends for 750… … Universalium
Kuril-Kamchatka Trench — The Kuril Kamchatka Trench or Kuril Trench (Russian: Курило Камчатский жёлоб ) is an oceanic trench with a maximum depth of 10,542 metres (34,000 ft). It extends from a triple junction with the Ulakhan Fault and the Aleutian Trench to the north,… … Wikipedia
Kuril Islands — Location of Kuril Islands in the Western Pacific. Matua Isl … Wikipedia
Mariana Trench — This article is about the ocean trench. For the Canadian band, see Marianas Trench (band). Coordinates: 11°21′N 142°12′E / 11.35°N 142.2°E / 11.35; 14 … Wikipedia
Philippine Trench — The Philippine Trench (also Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. It has a length of approximately 1,320 km and a width of about 30 km from the centre of the Philippine island… … Wikipedia
Japan Trench — ▪ submarine trench, Pacific Ocean deep submarine trench lying east of the Japanese islands, in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean. It is one of a series of depressions stretching south from the Kuril Trench and the Bonin Trench to … Universalium
Oceanic trench — Oceanic crust is formed at an oceanic ridge, while the lithosphere is subducted back into the asthenosphere at trenches. The oceanic trenches are hemispheric scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. They are also the… … Wikipedia
Japan Trench — The Japan Trench is an oceanic trench, a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, in the floor of the northern Pacific Ocean off northeast Japan. It extends from the Kuril Islands to the Bonin Islands and is 9,000 m (30,000 ft) at its deepest. It is an… … Wikipedia
Aleutian Trench — The Aleutian Trench (or Aleutian Trough) [ Webster s New Geographical Dictionary , p. 30] is a subduction zone and oceanic trench which runs along the southern coastline of Alaska and the adjacent waters of northeastern Siberia off the coast of… … Wikipedia
Yap Trench — ▪ submarine trench, Pacific Ocean also called West Caroline Trench, deep submarine trench in the western Pacific Ocean located east of the Yap Ridge and the Yap island group. The Yap Trench is about 400 miles (650 km) long from north to… … Universalium
