Diamantina Trench
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The Diamantina Fracture Zone is an area of the south-eastern Indian Ocean
seafloor, and has a range of ridges and trenches.
It lies to the south of the mid eastern Indian Ocean features of the Wharton Basin
and Perth Basin, and to the south west of the Naturaliste Plateau
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The Diamantina Deep
, the zone's deepest location, located about 1 125 km West-South-West of Perth, Western Australia
, at 35°S and 104°E. Its shallowest is the 1125 metre point on the Broken Ridge part of the zone which is closer to Ninety East Ridge
The CIA's Physical Map of the World does not list this as the deepest point in the Indian Ocean, but rather lists the Java Trench
.
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
seafloor, and has a range of ridges and trenches.
It lies to the south of the mid eastern Indian Ocean features of the Wharton Basin
Wharton Basin
Wharton BasinIs the named part of the marine area of the north east quarter of the Indian Ocean.It lies east of the Ninety East Ridge and west of Western Australia....
and Perth Basin, and to the south west of the Naturaliste Plateau
Naturaliste Plateau
The Naturaliste Plateau is one of several large submarine plateaus extending from Western Australia into the Indian Ocean. It covers an area of 90,000 square kilometres and has water depths from 1500 to 5000 metres deep....
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The Diamantina Deep
Diamantina Deep
Diamantina DeepIs located in the Diamantina Trench south west of Perth, Western Australia. The Diamantina Trench is in the eastern part of the larger Diamantina Fracture Zone which stretches from the Ninety East Ridge to the Naturaliste Plateau which lies of the lower part of Southwest Australia...
, the zone's deepest location, located about 1 125 km West-South-West of Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, at 35°S and 104°E. Its shallowest is the 1125 metre point on the Broken Ridge part of the zone which is closer to Ninety East Ridge
Ninety East Ridge
The Ninety East Ridge is a linear, aseismic, age-progressive seamount chain in the Indian Ocean and is named for its near-parallel strike along the 90th meridian...
The CIA's Physical Map of the World does not list this as the deepest point in the Indian Ocean, but rather lists the Java Trench
Java Trench
The Sunda Trench, earlier known as, and sometimes still indicated as the Java Trench, located in the northeastern Indian Ocean, with a length of and a maximum depth of , is the second-deepest point in the Indian Ocean after Diamantina Trench, which is 8,047 metres deep...
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See also
- Sunda ArcSunda ArcThe Sunda Arc is a volcanic arc that has produced the islands of Sumatra and Java, the Sunda Strait and the Lesser Sunda Islands. A chain of volcanoes forms the topographic spine of these islands...
- Oceanic trenchOceanic trenchThe oceanic trenches are hemispheric-scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. They are also the deepest parts of the ocean floor....