The 6,300-metre (20,700 ft) deep Puysegur Trench is a deep cleft in the floor of the south Tasman Sea formed by the subduction of the Indo-Australian...

South Island, New Zealand Puysegur Trench, an ocean trench off the New Zealand coast People Louis Pierre de Chastenet de Puységur (1727-1807), French soldier...

Oceanic trenches are prominent, long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor. They are typically 50 to 100 kilometers (30 to 60 mi) wide and...

The Hikurangi Trench, also called the Hikurangi Trough, is an oceanic trench in the bed of the Pacific Ocean off the east coast of the North Island of...

Kermadec Trench Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec   Ridge    Lau- Colville   Ridge Tonga Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi...

The Puysegur Trench, which includes the Fjord Trench, is the southern region of the boundary closest to the Macquarie Triple Junction. The Puysegur Trench...

beginning to subduct under the Pacific Plate along the Puysegur Trench. Extending southwest of this trench is the Macquarie Ridge. The southerly side is a divergent...

other, producing the Puysegur Trench to the south, the Hikurangi Trench east of the North Island, and the Kermadec and Tonga Trenches further north. New...

12 km 40.80°S 176.00°E Felt throughout North Island 3 November 1918 Puysegur Trench South of New Zealand 6.8 50 km 47.00°S 165.40°E Felt throughout Southland...

Plate at the Puysegur Trench. The South American Plate is subducting under the South Sandwich Plate, forming the South Sandwich Trench. The oceanic Australian...

Indo-Australian Plate subducts under the Pacific Plate forming the Puysegur Trench. The southern part of Zealandia, which is to the east of this boundary...

crust. These two features are separated by the Alpine Fault and Kermadec Trench and by the wedge-shaped Hikurangi Plateau, and they are moving separately...

complex is an extension of New Zealand's Alpine Fault which becomes the Puysegur Trench and ridge to its east. New Zealand is continental crust and the northern...

Plate is a long and narrow tectonic plate located west of the Kermadec Trench in the south Pacific Ocean. Also included on this tectonic plate is a small...

the Osbourn Trough and the Louisville seamount chain subduct in the Tonga Trench and this subduction process probably has influenced its volcanism. Monowai...

north and south. To the northeast, the Hikurangi Trench, an extension of the much deeper Kermadec Trench, drops to below 3,000 m (9,800 ft) close to the...

Zealand   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec    Ridge   Lau Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Ngatoro Rift Rumble V Ridge    Havre Trough South Fiji Basin Colville...

Indo-Australian Plate boundary forms the Macquarie Fault Zone in the Puysegur Trench off the southwestern corner of the South Island and comes onshore as...

subduction of the Australian Plate beneath the Pacific Plate along the Puysegur Trench, which extends southwards from the end of the Alpine Fault. The current...

Bellona Trough Bounty Trough Havre Trough Hikurangi Trench New Caledonia Trough Puysegur Trench Oceanic basins Bellona Basin Campbell Basin Canterbury...

with a moving plate tectonic boundary) also typically include an oceanic trench and a subduction zone. Abyssal plains cover more than 33% of the ocean floor...

Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec    Ridge   Lau Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Valu Fa Ridge ELSC CLSC Havre Trough South Fiji Basin Colville Ridge...

Bellona Trough Bounty Trough Havre Trough Hikurangi Trench New Caledonia Trough Puysegur Trench Oceanic basins Bellona Basin Campbell Basin Canterbury...

of South America Philippine Trench – A submarine trench to the east of the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean Puysegur Trench – A deep cleft in the floor...

Bellona Trough Bounty Trough Havre Trough Hikurangi Trench New Caledonia Trough Puysegur Trench Oceanic basins Bellona Basin Campbell Basin Canterbury...

the Samoa plume were introduced from 3–4 Ma when subduction in the Vitiaz Trench (north-west of Tonga) ceased. The lavas of the Louisville Seamount Chain...

the Australian Plate subducts under the Pacific Plate forming the Puysegur Trench. This configuration has led to volcanism and extension in the North...

Australian Plate. Immediately to the south of the South Island is the Puysegur Trench, where the Australian Plate is subducting obliquely under the Pacific...

opening from the still active eastern arc segments close to the Pacific trench and slab. The 400 km (250 mi) long Cook Fracture Zone that is aligned with...

Bellona Trough Bounty Trough Havre Trough Hikurangi Trench New Caledonia Trough Puysegur Trench Oceanic basins Bellona Basin Campbell Basin Canterbury...