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    19139 The South Sandwich Trench is a deep arcuate trench in the South Atlantic Ocean lying 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the east of the South Sandwich Islands...
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    The South Sandwich Plate or the Sandwich Plate is a small tectonic plate (microplate) bounded by the subducting South American Plate to the east, the...
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  • 2021 South Sandwich Islands earthquakes were a pair of powerful earthquakes, followed by many strong aftershocks which struck along the South Sandwich Trench...
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    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...
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    major trenches of the Atlantic Ocean, after the Puerto Rico Trench and the South Sandwich Trench. It bisects the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) just north of the...
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    South America along this trench which is currently extending northward. In the central part, between the Straits of Magellan and the South Sandwich Trench...
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    Shag, South Georgia Island and Clerke Rocks. The eastern border comprises the volcanic South Sandwich Islands flanked by the South Sandwich Trench. The...
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    the South Sandwich Trench. For this attempt, the expedition used a Kongsberg EM124 multibeam sonar system to achieve accurate mapping of the trench. On...
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    Plate at the Puysegur Trench. The South American Plate is subducting under the South Sandwich Plate, forming the South Sandwich Trench. The oceanic Australian...
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  • successfully dive to the deepest point in the Southern Ocean, in the South Sandwich Trench" (PDF). Plummer, Joel. Jakobshavn Bed Elevation Archived 27 June...
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    curved form, a chain of active or recently extinct volcanoes, a deep-sea trench, and a large negative Bouguer anomaly on the convex side of the volcanic...
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    margins form deep trenches: the Puerto Rico Trench (8,376 m or 27,480 ft maximum depth) in the western Atlantic and South Sandwich Trench (8,264 m or 27...
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    depth of 7,236 m (23,740 ft) occurs at the southern end of the South Sandwich Trench, at 60°00'S, 024°W. The Antarctic continental shelf appears generally...
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  • submarine basin that lies in the Scotia Sea of the South Atlantic ocean, behind the South Sandwich trench and between latitudes 55–60° S. It is bounded to...
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    by the abyssal South Sandwich Trench, with depths of 8,325 meters below sea level. The collision of tectonic plates, such as the South American, Antarctic...
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    commercially. East of the South Sandwich Islands, the Atlantic Ocean subducts in the South Sandwich Trench under the South Sandwich Plate at a rate of 65–78...
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  • the Diamantina Trench of the Indian Ocean (8,047 m or 26,401 ft), South Sandwich Trench of the Southern Ocean (7,235 m or 23,737 ft), and Molloy Deep of...
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    Plain. Some of the bottom water spreads through a gap to fill the South Sandwich Trench. Because of upwelling the new Weddell Sea Bottom Water turns clockwise...
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    interaction with the advancing South Sandwich Trench or the South Sandwich block. As a part of the Scotia Plate, the South Georgia block has been moving...
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    February 2019, Vescovo piloted Limiting Factor to the bottom of the South Sandwich Trench, the deepest part of the Southern Ocean, becoming the first person...
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    Traversay Islands (category Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
    andesitic rather than basaltic lava. The subduction zone forming the South Sandwich Trench lies to the east of the island arc. List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic...
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    Rico Trench. 2019: DSV Limiting Factor made dives to the bottom of the South Sandwich Trench, deepest part of the Southern Ocean, the Sunda Trench in the...
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    Leskov Island (category Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
    summits emerge above sea level. The South American Plate subducts beneath the Scotia Plate in the South Sandwich Trench, causing the volcanism of these islands...
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    Candlemas Island (category Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
    the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It is one of about a dozen islands that make up the South Sandwich island arc, a chain of volcanoes...
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    German Meteor expedition 1925-27 Meteor Deep, deepest spot of the South Sandwich Trench (8,428 m) Great Meteor Seamount Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    Ocean South Sandwich Trench – A deep arcuate trench in the South Atlantic Ocean east of the South Sandwich Islands Sumatra Trench – Subduction trench in...
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    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...
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    the Scotia Arc east of the South Sandwich Plate, are the South Sandwich island arc and trench. This volcanic active island arc has submerged ancestors...
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    Montagu Island (category Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
    Montagu Island is the largest of the South Sandwich Islands, located in the Scotia Sea off the coast of Antarctica. It is almost entirely ice-covered with...
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    Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (Spanish: Gobernación Militar de las Islas Malvinas, Georgias del Sur y Sandwich del Sur "Military...
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