They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts ... It stretches over 5,000 kilometers beneath the Indian Ocean, making it the Earth’s longest linear volcanic ridge. It also has an average width ...

Located in the Peru-Chile Trench 2. It is a tectonic divergent ... traversing the western regions of the Indian Ocean. Southeast Indian Ridge 1. Located in the southern Indian Ocean.

Ridges thrust up from the abyssal plain by tectonic forces can reach thousands of meters in height, and run for hundreds or thousands of miles. The discovery of both trenches and mid-ocean ridges ...

This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions, and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault lines. The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ...