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Ojos del Salado is the highest mountain in Chile with a peak at about 6900 meters above sea level. The Atacama Trench just off the coast of Peru and Chile is about 8100 meters below sea level (at its?
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Which is greater - the elevation of the highest mountain above sea level or the depth of the deepest ocean trench below sea level?
The deepest trench is greater than the highest mountain. Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak at 8.848 km, and the deepest trench is the Mariana trench which, at its deepest, is 10.911 km.
Where is mount everest and mariana trench located?
Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world can be found on the border of Nepal and Tibet in the Himalayan mountains. The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands.
Which is greater-the highest mountain or the deepest ocean?
The deepest Ocean, if you put Mt Everest, the highest mountain, in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep, the summit of Everest would still be more than a mile below the surface.
What is the term for the natural gap in a mountain ridge?
a trench.
What kind of plate boundary forms a mountain rainge and a deep ocean trench like the Andes Mountain Range and Peru-Chile trench?
oceanic-continental convergence
What is the widest mountain?
the widest mountain in the world is Mt. Tapachao, it goes down to the bottom of the marianas trench. it is located in Saipan, CNMI
What is abysses?
the abyss is a deep sea trench that can fit the tallest mountain in the world in it twice.
What is the difference between the marianas trench depth and the tallest mountain?
They aren't the same thing
What is highest and the lowest point on earth?
Highest point on earth is Mount Everest and the lowest point on earth is the Marinian Trench... I think its spelled that way
What is highest point above or below sea level on earth?
mt Everest at highest and challengers deep in marinas trench at 7 miles below sea level
Why did the volcanic Marianas Islands form to the west of the Marianas trench?
They formed to the west of the trench because that is where the submerged mountain range is. The islands are volcanic due to the water the islands carry under the Mariana plate.
What is the difference in a trench and a ridge?
Trenches are formed by divergent plates, Whereas Ridges are formed by plate in collision.
