MARIANAS TRENCH

Marianas trough, or Marianas deepmârˌēănˈəz, 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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books on: Marianas Trench  - 249 results

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Campaign in the Marianas
Book by Philip A. Crowl; Center of Military History United States Army, 1960
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Mariana Islands
...270 Marianas Leaders Confer at Tinian 273...Japanese Open-Trench Beach Defenses at Agat 337...Located in the southern portion of the Marianas chain, it was the most heavily fortified...
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Seas, Maps, and Men: An Atlas-History of Man's Exploration of the Oceans
Book by G. E.R. Deacon; Doubleday, 1962
Subjects: Ocean
...of the oceans. Valleys like the Marianas Trench in the Pacific could accommodate...islands -- which are the modern Marianas -- were known as the Ladrones...Thieves Islands" -- the modern Marianas he was greeted by dozens of islanders...
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Coastal and Submarine Morphology
Book by André Guilcher, B. W. Sparks, R. H. W. Kneese; Methuen, 1958
Subjects: Coasts, Submarine Topography
...234 B. Trenches and associated features...38. The two main types of deep trenches 246...Origin and arrangement of ocean trenches 248...
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World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study
Book by Gordon L. Rottman; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Islands Of The Pacific--Strategic Aspects, Military Geography--Pacific Area, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean, World War, 1939-1945--United States
...in the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench off of Guam at 36,198 feet ( 11...known simply as the Solomons or Marianas. Individual islands and atolls...volcanic islands, such as found in the Marianas, were clusters of two or more...
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Principles of Geology
Book by James Gilluly, Aaron C. Waters, A. O. Woodford, Robert R. Compton; W. H. Fremmil, 1958
Subjects: Geology
...of the East Indies. The Sunda Trench, south of Java, is the only deep...Japan through the Bonin and Marianas islands. These are not bordered...Bonin, Philippine, Ryukyu, and Marianas trenches. The only other known deeps in...
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journal articles on: Marianas Trench  - 6 results

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Deep-Sea Exploration: Earth's Final Frontier: Only a Portion of the Potential of the Oceans Has Been Tapped, but It Is Clear That Exploring and Improving Our Understanding of the Ocean and Its Influence on Global Events Are among Our Most Important Challenges Today
Journal article by Stephen L. Baird; The Technology Teacher, Vol. 65, 2005
Subjects: Oceanographic research--History, Oceanographic research--Study and teaching, United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--Services, Web sites (World Wide Web)--Services, Web sites--Services
...Trieste to the U.S. Navy in 1958. On January 23, 1963, the Trieste set a new world record when it touched bottom in the Marianas Trench off Guam. When the American submarine Thresher sank off the coast of New England in 1963, the Trieste was used to...
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CD-Based Reference Tools Serve as Virtual Libraries
Journal article by Jeff Carmona; T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), Vol. 24, 1996
Subjects: 3D Talking Globe: The See and Hear Atlas Gazetter (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Expanded Multimedia Edition (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Britannica CD (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Britannica Software Inc.--Products, Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 1997 (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Compton's NewMedia--Products, Dorling Kindersley Multimedia Ltd.--Products, Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1997 (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Grolier Multimedia Inc.--Products, Jones Digital Century Inc.--Products, Jones Telecommunication and Multimedia Encyclopedia (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Deluxe Electronic Edition (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Merriam-Webster--Products, Microsoft Corp. Multimedia Publishing Group--Products, Microsoft Encarta '96 (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Now What Software--Products, Our Times: Multimedia Encyclopedia of the 20th Century (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Rand McNally Children's World Atlas (Children's educational software)--Design and construction, Rand McNally and Co.--Products, Time Warner Electronic Publishing--Products, Vicarious Entertainment--Products, World Book Inc.--Products, World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia (Electronic reference)--Design and construction
...12 3D spinning globes and zoom in through nine levels of detail, from the top of Mt. Everest to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. With 3D Talking Globe: The See and Hear Atlas Gazetter, from Now What Software, one can search the world over...
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A 3000-Year Culture Sequence from Palau, Western Micronesia
Journal article by Geoffrey R. Clark; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 44, 2005
Subjects: Civilization--Analysis, Civilization--History, Colonization--History, Culture--Analysis, Culture--History, Palau--History
...and settlement of Palau, Yap, and the Marianas was relatively rapid within 200-500 years...1997). Excavation of a 1.5 m by 4.6 m trench behind a section of prehistoric limestone...al. 2003), although settlement of the Marianas at 3600-3500 cal. B.P. is often considered...
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Radiocarbon Dates from the Ulong Site in Palau and Implications for Western Micronesian Prehistory
Journal article by Geoffrey Clark; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 39, 2004
Subjects: Archaeological associations--Research, Archaeological societies--Research, Pottery--Discovery and exploration
...colonisation of Palau and the Marianas suggested by Wickler...of a 1.5 m by 4.6 m trench parallel to the southern...were two 1 m by 2 m trenches called Unit 1 (eastern...Peter White for their trenchant and helpful comments...level change in the Marianas: recent excavations...
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Type X Pottery, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: Petrography and Possible Micronesian Relationships
Journal article by Jim Specht, Ian Lilley, William R. Dickinson; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 45, 2006
Subjects: Papua New Guinea--Social aspects, Pottery--Natural history
...evolving subduction zone of an arc-trench system that lay along the southern flank of an originally intraoceanic arc-trench system as it approached the continental...of Huon Gulf and at the New Britain Trench along the northern margin of the Solomon...
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magazine articles on: Marianas Trench  - 4 results

 
 
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Quizzical: Once Again, Chris Edwards Tackles Some of Life's Great Mysteries, Such as Why Climbers Lose Their Appetite at High Altitudes, Why Airmail Stickers Say 'Par Avion' and How Stanley Found Livingstone
Magazine article by Chris Edwards; Geographical, Vol. 77, November 2005
Subjects: Air mail--Terminology, Airmail--Terminology, Arctic--Natural history, Mountaineers--Food and nutrition, Oceanographic research, Oceanographic submersibles, Passports--Terminology, Stanley, Henry M.--Behavior, Universal Postal Union--Terminology, Zanzibar
...around four kilometres. And the Marianas Trench under the Pacific. Ocean reaches...descended to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in 1960, reaching a depth of...vehicle (ROV) down into the Marianas Trench although there are big hurdles...
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The Death of Outrage?
Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 50, September 14, 1998
Subjects: Authors--Interviews, Bennett, William J.--Interviews, Writers--Interviews
...talked to some Democratic senators whom I know and Ive worked with. As Imus said, theyre all in diving bells off the Marianas Trench. Unreachable. Moynihan gave us defining deviancy down; now were defining Democrats down. Wheres Lieberman? Wheres...
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Shakespeare's Religion
Magazine article by Robert Miola; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2008
Subjects: Renaissance writers--Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, John--Criticism and interpretation
...our brother is our chastity"), to shrill excess (her condemnation of her brother in act three), and to a dubious compromise (Marianas substitution-for-her-in-the-bed trick). But she rises to genuine moral heroism in the end. Thinking her brother executed, Isabella...
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The Art of Growing Giants
Magazine article by Mark Wexler; National Wildlife, Vol. 32, October 1994
Subjects: Clams--Preservation, Palau--Research, Poaching--Prevention
...the way to Japan. Just east of Palau lies a 27,000-foot ocean trench, one of the deepest on Earth. A barrier reef surrounds much...the islands had selected their political status. The northern Marianas (including Guam) voted to become a U.S. commonwealth like Puerto...


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newspaper articles on: Marianas Trench  - 14 results

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Supersub's 7-Mile Dive to the Unknown
Newspaper article by Andy Lines; The Mirror (London, England), December 3, 1997
...bottom of the Pacific - the Marianas Trench. The Trench is so deep - 36...solo dive ever made. But the Marianas Trench attempt will be the adventure...send a manned mission to the Marianas Trench does not worry Hawkes. "Is...
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The Dali I Knew; Tate Modern's Exhibition of Salvador Dali's Flirtation with Film Is Full of Insights into the Master of Surrealism and Brings Back a Flood of Memories for Brian Sewell
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 1, 2007
Subjects: Painters (Artists)--Exhibitions, Painters--Exhibitions
...be made on Salvador Dali, the flaw as deep as the Marianas Trench, but the genius a mere Alpine foothill if we measure...enough that he was, by the mid-1940s, teetering on the Marianas Trench of his decline; he spent the rest of his life sinking...
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Straight off the Vine: Neil Cammies
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 29, 2007
Subjects: Wine industry, Wineries
...film Mondovino), who feels confident enough to put his name on the front label. The nose is deep and were talking Marianas Trench deep here, tarry black fruit mingling with sweet saltiness. Big structure in the mouth, closed tannins that are built...
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Warriors Go for Sweep
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 13, 2007
...We will be ready for them," said Dindo after presiding over a late-morning workout. With a bench as deep as the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean, Dindo has the advantage in manpower with a possible starting lineup made up of legit scoring...
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CHILD'S PLAY? No, There's More to a Baby's Mind Than You Think ... BOOK OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 31, 2009
...things, our own minds. Until quite recently, we knew more about the surface of the moon, or the floor of the San Marianas Trench, than we did about what goes on in a babys head. Freud made some guesses, Melanie Klein followed them up, and the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Marianas Trench  - 6 results

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Marianas Trench
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARIANAS TRENCH Marianas trough, or Marianas deep mar ean z, 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 Challenger Deep) known depression on the earths surface...
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Piccard, Auguste
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...design. In 1960 Jacques Piccard, with U.S. Navy Lieutenant Donald Walsh, descended to 35,800 ft (10,912 m) in the Marianas Trench . Jacquess son Jacques Piccard, 1958 , is also a balloonist; in Mar., 1999, he and Briton Brian Jones became...
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Ocean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...deeper than the surrounding ocean floor. The greatest ocean depth has been sounded in the Challenger Deep of the Marianas Trench , a distance of 10,911 m (35,798 ft) below sea level. The deep ocean floor begins at the seaward edge of the continental...
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Oceanography
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to very great depths, such as the U.S. bathyscaphe, Trieste II, which descended to 35,798 ft (10,294 m) in the Marianas Trench in 1960. Smaller, remote-controlled craft, such as the Jason, which was used to examine the sunken steamship...
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Submersible
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...called the Trieste II, carried two men to a record-breaking depth of 35,800 ft (10,900 m) at the bottom of the Marianas trench in 1960. One of the most impressive submersibles is the Aluminaut, constructed of high-strength aluminum alloys...
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