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    Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec   Ridge    Lau- Colville   Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi...
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    Kermadec Trench Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec   Ridge    Lau- Colville   Ridge Tonga Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi...
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    subduction zone. Also not a trench is the New Caledonia trough, which is an extensional sedimentary basin related to the Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone....
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    rate up to 24 cm/yr. The trench formed between the Kermadec-Tonga and Pacific Plates is also home to the second deepest trench in the world, at about 10...
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    Australia-India plate at the Tonga Trench. The Tongan Islands sit on the Australia-India plate just west of the Tonga Trench. These volcanoes are formed...
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    in the Tonga Trench, at 10,823 meters (35,509 feet). The third deepest point on Earth, the Sirena Deep, is also located in the Mariana Trench. The western...
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    Izu–Bonin Trench Mariana Trench Yap Trench Philippine Trench Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Hikurangi Trench Subduction zones around the Pacific Ocean do not...
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  • people Tonga, Tuvalu, a village on the island of Nanumanga, Tuvalu Tonga Plate, a small tectonic plate in the southwest Pacific Ocean Tonga Trench, an oceanic...
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  • Thumbnail for 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
    earlier eruption in Tonga 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami 2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption List of earthquakes in Tonga Tonga Trench The volcano was...
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    formation theory is the fact that the island chain lies just north of the Tonga Trench. An alternative theory is that the islands were formed by magma seeping...
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    western slope of the Mariana Trench. On June 10, 2019, Vescovo reached the bottom of the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench, confirming that it is the second...
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    centres. The oceanic Pacific Plate is subducting under the Tonga Plate at the Tonga Trench driven by the mutual movements of the Australian and Pacific...
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    extremity. However, the chain's proximity to the northern end of the Tonga trench, and the presence of voluminous young volcanism on what should be the...
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    much deeper Kermadec Trench. It lies in the Hikurangi Margin subduction zone, which is the southern extension of the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone. The...
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    aborted, its RTG rests in the South Pacific Ocean, in the vicinity of the Tonga Trench. RTGs were also used for the Nimbus, Transit and LES satellites. By comparison...
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    Vitiaz Trench (north-west of Tonga) ceased. The lavas of the Louisville Seamount Chain were generated 80–90 Ma but began to subduct under the Tonga-Kermadec...
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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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    Plate, subducting under it north of New Zealand forming the Tonga Trench and the Kermadec Trench. The Alpine Fault marks a transform boundary between the...
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    seaQuest DSV Captain Jack Clayton Season 1, episode 6: "Treasures of the Tonga Trench" 1993–2000 Homicide: Life on the Street Lieutenant Al Giardello Nominated—NAACP...
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    Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec   Ridge    Lau- Colville   Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi...
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  • Plate. The Tonga plate is subducting the Pacific plate along the Tonga Trench. This subduction turns into a transform fault boundary north of Tonga. An active...
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  • Troughs. They connect the Vityaz Trench via what is termed the Vitiaz Trench Lineament to the northern end of the Tonga Trench. It was formed during the middle...
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    producing the Puysegur Trench to the south, the Hikurangi Trench east of the North Island, and the Kermadec and Tonga Trenches further north. New Zealand...
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    the SNAP-27 RTG to land in a safe place. The impact point was over the Tonga Trench in the Pacific, one of its deepest points, and the cask sank 10 kilometers...
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    Capricorn Seamount (category Geography of Tonga)
    is located on the eastern flank of the Tonga Trench and is in the process of breaking up; in turn the trench has been altered by the interaction with...
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    trench lies the Fiordland Basin, which can be considered an extension of the trench. The Puysegur Trench mirrors the Kermadec Trench and Tonga Trench...
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        Zone   Lau Basin New Hebrides   Trench     Lau   Ridge South   Fiji Basin Tonga Trench Minerva Abyssal   Plain  Tonga-  Kerm-   adec Ridge    Cook fracture...
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  • Challenger Deep, Marianas Trench (10,971 meters (35,994 ft)) and the Tonga Trench (10,882 meters (35,702 ft)). Road: Kiangan-Tinoc-Buguias Road, Eheb,...
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    This ocean trench, reaching measured depths of 34,696 feet (10,575 m), is the third-deepest trench, (after the Mariana Trench and Tonga Trench) on the earth's...
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    scarp   East Wish- bone scarp West Wishbone  scarp     Tonga Trench Osbourn Trough  Kermadec Trench Hikurangi Plateau Chatham Rise The oldest volcanic rocks...
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