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We call the deepest point on Earth “Challenger Deep”. named after the research submarine that discovered this place in 1951. This point is 10,920 meters below sea level. So this is deeper than Mount Everest is high!
The deepest points on Earth can be found in the oceans in the so-called deep-sea trenches. “Challenger Deep” is located in the Mariana Trench in Southeast Asia, near the American island of Guam.
Such deep-sea troughs arise where one tectonic plate dives under another tectonic plate. This pulls the earth’s crust to the depths, hence the enormous depth. Geologists call this place a subduction zone. At the height of the Mariana Trench, the Pacific tectonic plate dips under the Philippine plate.
And wonder of wonders, organisms still live that deep! Remember! It is pitch dark there, very cold and there is a gigantic pressure, namely 11 kilometers of water (about 1000 bar or about 1000 times the air pressure that we experience here on the earth’s surface).
Answered by
Professor Manuel Sintubin
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