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Give a detailed account of the bottom topography of the Pacific Ocean.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Oceanography

The Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest of the world's oceans, covers roughly one-third of the Earth's surface and exceeds the combined area of all continents, with an average depth of about 7,300 m.

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  • Continental Margins: Shelf, Slope and Rise
  • The Trench-Dominated Margins — the Pacific "Ring of Fire"
  • Regional Trench and Basin Detail
  • Central Pacific — Seamounts, Guyots and Coral Provinces
  • The East Pacific Rise — the Divergent Margin
  • Spatial Summary of Named Features by Region

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