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      • The purple sea floor at the center of the view is the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
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  2. The purple sea floor at the center of the view is the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, parallel to and north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

  3. Nov 29, 2023 · The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The peninsula of Florida is visible at the upper right. The islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the island group of the Virgin Islands are all identified on this three-dimensional bathymetric map, which displays depth.

  4. The unusually deep sea floor is not limited to the trench, but also extends farther south toward Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Trench is also associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth, -380 milliGal, which indicates the presence of an active downward force.

  5. The northern boundary of Puerto Rico is marked by the 800-kilometer-long Puerto Rico Trench, which is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, with a maximum depth of 8,648 meters (Figure 1). It is the eighth deepest trench in the world and the deepest seafloor outside the Pacific Ocean.

  6. The deepest place in the Atlantic is in the Puerto Rico Trench, a place called Brownson Deep at 8,378m.

  7. The Puerto Rico Trench is about 1,090 miles (1,750 km) long and 60 miles (100 km) wide. The deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean, the Milwaukee Depth, lies at a depth of 27,493 feet (8,380 metres) in the western end of the trench, about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Puerto Rico.

  8. The unusually deep sea floor is not limited to the trench, but also extends farther south toward Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Trench is also associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on Earth, -380 milliGal, which indicates the presence of an active downward force.

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