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Table I 



Maximum Depths, in Meters, Reported for Major Trenches (in part after 

 compilation of Wiseman and Ovey, 1955) 



Marianas Trench (specifically Challenger Deep) 

 1 1 ,034 ± "lO (Hanson et nh, 1959) 

 10,915+20 (this Chapter)" 

 10,915± (layman, in litt., 19(iO) 



10,863 + 35 (Carrut hers and Law ford, 1952) 

 10.850 ±20 (this Chapter, Fig. 2) 



Tonga 



10,882 + 50 (Hanson et al., 1959) 

 10,800 ± 100 (Fisher and Revelle, 1954) 



Kuril-Kamchatka 



10,542+100 (Udintsev, 1959) 

 9750+100 {Dclauze, in lift., 1962)'^ 



Philippine (vicinity of Cape Johnson Deep) 

 10,497 ± 100 (Hess and Buell, 1950) 

 10,265 ± 45 (Bruun, quoted in Wiseman and Ovey) 

 10,030 ± 10 (this Chapter) 



Kermadec 



10,047+ (Udintsev, 1960) 



Idzu-Bonin (includes "Ramapo Deep" of the Japan Trench) 

 9810 (Udintsev, 1959) 

 9695 (vicinity of Ramapo Depth, Nasu et al., 1960) 



Puerto Rico 



9200 ±20 (Lyman, 1954) 



New Hebrides (North) 



9165+20 (this Chapter) « 



North Solomons (Bougainville) 

 9103+ (Udintsev. 1960) 



8940+ 20 (this Chapter)" 



Ya]5 (West Caroline) 



8527+ (Kanaev, 1960) 



New Britain 



8320+ (Udintsev, 1960) 



8245+ 20 (this Cliapter)« 



South Solomons 



8310+20 (tliis Chapter)" 



South Sandwich 



8264 (Maurer and Stocks, 1933) 



Peru-Chile 



8055 ± 10 (Fisher, 1958) 



Palau 



8054+ (Cdintsov, I960) 



8(t50+l<i (this Chapter)" (continued) 



