When Was the Peru Chile Trench Formed
The Subduction Zone off the West Coast of South America Marks the Convergence of the Oceanic Nazca Plate and the Continental South America Plate. Nazca-South...
The subduction zone off the west coast of South America marks the convergence of the oceanic Nazca plate and the continental South America plate. Nazca-South America convergence over the past 23 million years has created the 6-km-deep Peru-Chile trench, 150 km offshore.
How was the Chile Peru trench formed?
The Peru-Chile Trench off the west coast of South America is formed by the oceanic crust of the Nazca plate subducting beneath the continental crust of the South American plate. … In a subduction zone, some of the molten material—the former seafloor—can rise through volcanoes located near the trench.
Where is Peru-Chile Trench?
Peru-Chile Trench, also called Atacama Trench, submarine trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of Peru and Chile.
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