GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean, is the deepest location on Earth. According to the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the United States has jurisdiction over the trench and its resources.

Detailed explanation-2: -The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kilometers southwest of the U.S. territorial island of Guam.

Detailed explanation-3: -Toward the southern end of the Mariana Trench lies the Challenger Deep. It sits 36, 070 feet below sea level, making it the point most distant from the water’s surface and the deepest part of the Trench.

Detailed explanation-4: -The deepest trench in the world, the Mariana Trench located near the Mariana Islands, is 1, 580 miles long and averages just 43 miles wide. It is home to the Challenger Deep, which, at 10, 911 meters (35, 797 feet), is the deepest part of the ocean.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mariana Trench, also called Marianas Trench, deep-sea trench in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean, the deepest such trench known on Earth, located mostly east as well as south of the Mariana Islands.