Venezuelan Basin

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oceanic basin structural depression submarine basin

The Venezuelan Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the southern Caribbean, lying off the coasts of Venezuela and nearby islands and forming one of the major structural depressions of the Caribbean Sea.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oceanic basin ⓘ
structural depression ⓘ
submarine basin ⓘ
basinType abyssal basin ⓘ
boundedBy Aves Ridge ⓘ
Beata Ridge ⓘ
Lesser Antilles ⓘ
surface form: Lesser Antilles island arc

South American continental margin ⓘ
continent adjacent to South America ⓘ
country Venezuela ⓘ
crustType oceanic crust ⓘ
depthCategory deep-sea basin ⓘ
geologicalAge Mesozoic–Cenozoic ⓘ
hasFeature relatively flat abyssal plain ⓘ
thick sedimentary cover ⓘ
hasSedimentType pelagic sediments ⓘ
turbidites ⓘ
isMajorStructuralDepressionOf Caribbean Sea ⓘ
knownFor great water depth in the Caribbean Sea ⓘ
liesEastOf Beata Ridge ⓘ
liesNorthOf Venezuela ⓘ
liesSouthOf Aves Ridge ⓘ
liesWestOf Lesser Antilles ⓘ
locatedIn Caribbean Sea ⓘ
southern Caribbean ⓘ
locatedOffCoastOf Aruba ⓘ
Bonaire ⓘ
Curaçao ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ
maximumDepth about 5000 m ⓘ
near Leeward Antilles ⓘ
Margarita Island ⓘ
ocean Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
partOf Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Cayman Trough ⓘ
surface form: Caribbean Sea floor
region Caribbean ⓘ
separatedBy Beata Ridge ⓘ
separatedFrom Colombian Basin ⓘ
subBasinOf Caribbean Sea ⓘ
tectonicallyRelatedTo Aves Ridge ⓘ
Lesser Antilles subduction zone ⓘ
tectonicSetting intra-plate basin ⓘ
waterBody Caribbean Sea ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Caribbean Sea → hasPart → Venezuelan Basin ⓘ
Colombian Basin → liesNorthwestOf → Venezuelan Basin ⓘ
Colombian Basin → separatedFrom → Venezuelan Basin ⓘ