What tectonic plate is located west of a trench which reaches a maximum-known depth of 10994 m?
Mariana Trench The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, an average of 200 km to the east of the Mariana Islands, in the Western Pacific East of Philippines. It is a crescent-shaped scar in the Earth's crust, and measures about 2550 km long and 69 km wide on average. It reaches a maximum-known depth of 10994 m (± 40 m ) at a small slot-shaped valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep, at its southern end, although some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at 11034 m . If Mount Everest were dropped into the trench at this point, its peak would still be over 1.6 km underwater. In 2009, Marianas Trench was established as a United States National Monument.
List of tectonic plates This is a list of tectonic plates on the Earth's surface. Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. The plates are around 100 km thick and consist of two principal types of material: oceanic crust (also called "sima" from silicon and magnesium) and continental crust ("sial" from silicon and aluminium). The composition of the two types of crust differs markedly, with mafic basaltic rocks dominating oceanic crust, while continental crust consists principally of lower-density felsic granitic rocks. See also Plate tectonics.