Aleutian Trench

• North American Plate
• Pacific plate

The Aleutengraben is up to 7,822 m deep and 3,200 km long deepwater channel in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean ( Pacific).

Geography

It is located between the Aleutian Islands in the north, the elongated Alaska Peninsula to the northeast, the Northern Pacific Basin in the South, the North Pacific ridge in the south-south -west, Kamchatka behind the Kuril the west and the Commander Islands in the North West. There he lies approximately between 50 and 55 ° north latitude and 167 ° east and 158 ° west longitude.

Geology

The Aleutengraben forms part of the northern deep seam of the North American plate to the north and the Pacific plate to the south.