The Cayman Trough, or Cayman Trench, also called Bartlett Deep, or Bartlett Trough, is a spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It extends from the Windward Passage, going south of the Sierra MaestraCuba toward Guatemala. The relatively narrow trough trends east-northeast to west-southwest and has a maximum depth of 7,686 meters (25,216 ft); it is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea. The trough appears to be a slowly spreading ridge which may be the result of an offset or gap of approximately 420 kilometers (260 mi) along the transform fault that runs through the area. Image File history File links Cayman_Trough. ... Image File history File links Cayman_Trough. ... Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. ... In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary (divergent fault boundary or divergent plate boundary), (but also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. ... Map of Central America and the Caribbean The Caribbean (pronounced or ) Sea is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico. ... The Windward Passage marked in red The Windward Passage is a strait in the Caribbean Sea, between the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola. ... Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province from what is now Guantánamo Province to Niquero [1] in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. ... A transform fault is a geological fault that is a special case of strike-slip faulting which terminates abruptly, at both ends, at a major transverse geological feature. ...
References
Goreau, P. D. E. 1983 Tectonic Evolution of the North Central Caribbean Plate Margin. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA.; Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Sep 1983. 248p. Report: WHOI-83-34. *Gsa Abstract
Roberts, H. H. 1994 Reefs and lagoons of Grand Cayman Monographiae biologicae (Brunt, MA; Davies, JE eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Ma The Hague. ISBN 0792324625 *Scotese, Christopher R. 1999. Evolution of the Caribbean Sea (100 mya - Present) Collision of Cuba with Florida Platform and Opening of the Cayman Trough. PALEOMAP Project http://www.scotese.com/caribanim.htm
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List of oceanic trenches Categories: Stub | Plate tectonics | Earth sciences | Landforms | Oceanic trenches ...
The CaymanTrough, or Cayman Trench, also called Bartlett Deep, or Bartlett Trough, is a spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
The relatively narrow trough trends east-northeast to west-southwest and has a maximum depth of 7,686 meters (25,216 ft); it is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea.
The trough appears to be a slowly spreading ridge which may be the result of an offset or gap of approximately 420 kilometers (260 mi) along the transform fault that runs through the area.
Between the Cayman Islands and Jamaica lies the deepest part of the Caribbean, the CaymanTrough, which is over four miles deep.
The Cayman Islands lie between 19 and 20 degrees north latitude in the far western Caribbean and are cooled by the trade winds.
The people of Cayman have a very high standard of living and education; a very low crime rate; modern infrastructure, communications and medical facilities; a thriving offshore banking sector; and a friendly and efficient tourist industry based on a protected marine ecology.
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