Talk:Mariana Trench
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Other Languages edit
The dutch page notes that its 11,035 meters deep. Also the German page notes 11,035. The Scandinavian pages notes that's 10,911 meters deep. The English page notes that is 10,924 meters deep but on the main stub Ocean Trench notes also the 10,911 meters. But if you go to http://www.marianatrench.com/mariana_trench-nautical_measurements.htm it notes that deepest point 11,033 meters is. In my opion they don't know exactly how deep the trench is, but 100+ meters (1,1%) is a large difference.
"recent"? edit
> In the recent Transformers movie, the remains of the defeated Decepticons are dumped into the Mariana Trench.
I think terms such as 'recent' need to be avoided or defined.But if they are kept it should be fine.Also the movie wasn’t real so no need to worry about Decepticons ruling the world or anything
oblate spheroid edit
Since this page is protected, can someone add a refrence to the earth being an oblate spheroid (there is a wikipedia entry of the same name) in the opening? Currently the article simply says the earth is not a perfect sphere.
How deep? edit
Currently this page and the Challenger Deep page give different values for the maximum depth, 10,984±25 m versus 10,920 ± 10 m. The pages should be consistent across the project but which number to use? Mikenorton (talk) 11:58, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Source for the density of water at the bottom edit
The article currently states that "At the bottom of the trench, [...] the density of water is increased by 4.96%", without specifying a source. I tried to find a source for this specific value, but everything I could find just used this Wikipedia page as a source. Therefore, I suggest adding a "citation needed" tag for this statement. 88.90.224.145 (talk) 09:09, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Sure go ahead. You can add {{cn}} to the end of the sentence/paragraph. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, the article is semi-protected, and I seem to have lost access to my old Wikipedia account, so I cannot perform the edit myself. I would appreciate it if you or someone else with write access to the article could do it for me! 88.90.224.145 (talk) 14:55, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
