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Pacific Ocean is the largest of all the water bodies on the earth. It has got its name from a Latin word “Mare Pacificum†which means “peaceful sea†given by Ferdinand Magellan a Portuguese explorer. Pacific Ocean is 12999 meters de...
http://www.letusfindout.com/how-deep-is-the-pacific-oce...
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Located between the continents of North America, South America, Asia, Antarctica and Australia the Pacific Ocean is the largest of the world's four oceans. It covers approximately one-third of the surface of the earth, ... The deepest trench in the world is also housed in the waters of the Pacific. At 36,198 feet deep,
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www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/oceans/pacific.html
www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/oceans/pacific.html
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This is what's happening on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean off the Marianas islands. The really deep part of the ocean is in the bottom of the trench created by the subducting ocean crust.
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www.extremescience.com/DeepestOcean.htm
www.extremescience.com/DeepestOcean.htm
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The greatest known depth of the Pacific Ocean is in the Mariana Trench which lies in the Western Pacific off the Southwest coast of Guam, it is approximately 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) below sea level. This is also the lowest point on Earth....
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090106225...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Okinawa Trough (oceanic deep, Pacific Ocean), ...shallow; almost three-fourths of the sea is less than 650 feet (200 metres), and its average depth is only 1,145 feet (350 metres). ... physiography of East China Sea (in East China Sea (sea, Pacific Ocean): Physiography)
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www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/426520/Okinawa-Troug...
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/426520/Okinawa-Trough
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Pacific Ocean 64,186,000 15,215 Mariana Trench, 36,200 ft deep ... Atlantic Ocean 33,420,000 12,881 Puerto Rico Trench, 28,231 ft deep ... Indian Ocean 28,350,000 13,002 Java Trench, 25,344 ft deep...
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www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean/
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean/
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The thermal structure of the Pacific Ocean between water depths of about 1 and 4.5 kilometers is estimated from the oxygen isotopic ratio of benthonic foraminifera from deep-drilled and piston cores of early Pliocene age (about 3 to 5 million years ago).
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www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/205/4413/1386
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Deep Sea Drilling Project site 289 in the western equatorial Pacific has yielded an extremely detailed record of the carbon and oxygen isotopic changes in the Miocene deep ocean.
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www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/212/4495/665
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