Kuril–Kamchatka Trench
(Also called the Kuril Kamchatka Trench ) The Kuril is one to 10,542 m deep and 2250 km long deepwater channel in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean ( Pacific). Maximum depth Kurilengrabens is the 10,542 m deep Witjastief 3
Geography
It is located between the Kuril Islands to the west and northwest, Kamchatka in the north, the behind the Aleutengraben Commander Islands in the Northeast, the Northwest Pacific Basin in the east, southeast and south and the Japan Trench and the Japanese island of Hokkaidō to the southwest. He is about 41-56 ° north latitude, and 146 and 167 ° east longitude.
Geology
The Kuril subduction zone forms the Pacific plate is subducted beneath the Okhotsk plate here. It forms a part of the very deep seam between the Pacific Plate to the south and North American plate to the north and Ochotskischer plate in the northwest.
Fauna
In the Kuril deep-sea fish Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis occurs, which is the deepest occurring fish species, according to current knowledge. Live specimens were filmed at a depth of 7703 meters.