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- Cayman_Trough abstract "The Cayman Trough, (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. It extends from the Windward Passage, going south of the Sierra Maestra of Cuba toward Guatemala. The transform continues onshore as the Motagua Fault, which cuts across Guatemala and extends offshore under the Pacific Ocean, where it intersects the Middle America Trench subduction zone.The relatively narrow trough trends east-northeast to west-southwest and has a maximum depth of 7,686 metres (25,217 ft). Within the trough is a slowly spreading north-south ridge which may be the result of an offset or gap of approximately 420 kilometres (260 mi) along the main fault trace. The Cayman spreading ridge shows a long-term opening rate of 11–12 mm/yr. The eastern section of the trough has been named the Gonâve Microplate. The Gonâve plate extends from the spreading ridge east to the island of Hispanola. It is bounded on the north by the Oriente and Septentrional fault zones. On the south the Gonâve is bounded by the Walton fault, the Jamaica restraining bend and the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone. The two bounding strike slip fault zones are left lateral. The motion relative to the North American Plate is 11 mm/yr to the east and the motion relative to the Caribbean Plate is 8 mm/yr.During the Eocene the trough was the site of a subduction zone which formed the volcanic arc of the Cayman Ridge and the Sierra Maestra volcanic terrain of Cuba to the north, as the northeastward-moving Caribbean Plate was subducted beneath the southwest-moving North American Plate, or as some researchers contend, beneath a plate fragment dubbed the East Cuban Microplate.In 2010 a UK team from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton (NOCS), equipped with an autonomously controlled, robot submarine, began mapping the full extent of the trench and discovered black smokers on the ocean floor at a depth of 5 km (3.1 mi), the deepest yet found. In January 2012, the researchers announced that water exits the vents at a temperature possibly exceeding 450 °C (842 °F), making them among the hottest known undersea vents. They also announced the discovery of new species, including an eyeless shrimp with a light-sensing organ on its back.".
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- Cayman_Trough wikiPageExternalLink 2003EAEJA....12580R.
- Cayman_Trough wikiPageExternalLink abstract_19727.htm.
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- Cayman_Trough wikiPageID "310390".
- Cayman_Trough wikiPageRevisionID "601271764".
- Cayman_Trough hasPhotoCollection Cayman_Trough.
- Cayman_Trough subject Category:Borders_of_the_Cayman_Islands.
- Cayman_Trough subject Category:Cuba–Jamaica_border.
- Cayman_Trough subject Category:Extreme_points_of_Jamaica.
- Cayman_Trough subject Category:Landforms_of_Cuba.
- Cayman_Trough subject Category:Landforms_of_the_Cayman_Islands.
- Cayman_Trough subject Category:Oceanic_trenches_of_the_Caribbean_Sea.
- Cayman_Trough subject Category:Plate_tectonics.
- Cayman_Trough point "18.5 -83.0".
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- Cayman_Trough type BordersOfTheCaymanIslands.
- Cayman_Trough type Boundary108512259.
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- Cayman_Trough type Excavation103302121.
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- Cayman_Trough comment "The Cayman Trough, (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate.".
- Cayman_Trough label "Cayman Trough".
- Cayman_Trough label "Fosa de las Caimán".
- Cayman_Trough label "Fossa Cayman".
- Cayman_Trough label "Fosse des Caïmans".
- Cayman_Trough label "Kaimangraben".
- Cayman_Trough label "Rów Kajmański".
- Cayman_Trough label "Жёлоб Кайман".
- Cayman_Trough label "開曼海溝".
- Cayman_Trough sameAs Kaimangraben.
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- Cayman_Trough sameAs Kaiman_uharteetako_itsas_hobia.
- Cayman_Trough sameAs Fosse_des_Caïmans.
- Cayman_Trough sameAs Rów_Kajmański.
- Cayman_Trough sameAs Fossa_Cayman.
- Cayman_Trough sameAs m.01t33q.
- Cayman_Trough sameAs Q119167.
- Cayman_Trough sameAs Q119167.
- Cayman_Trough sameAs Cayman_Trough.
- Cayman_Trough lat "18.5".
- Cayman_Trough long "-83.0".
- Cayman_Trough wasDerivedFrom Cayman_Trough?oldid=601271764.
- Cayman_Trough depiction Cayman_Trough.jpg.
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