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The Cayman Trough, or Cayman Trench, also called Bartlett Deep, or Bartlett Trough, is a complex transform fault zone which contains a small spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. It extends from the Windward Passage, going south of the Sierra Maestra Cuba toward Guatemala. The transform continues onshore as the Motagua Fault which cuts across Guatemala and back offshore under the Pacific Ocean where it intersects the Middle America Trench subduction zone. The relatively narrow trough trends east-northeast to west-southwest and has a maximum depth of 7,686 meters (25,216 ft); it's the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea. Within the trough is a slowly spreading north-south ridge which may be the result of an offset or gap of approximately 420 kilometers (260 mi) along the main fault trace.
During the Eocene the trough was the site of a subduction zone which formed the volcanic arc of the Cayman Ridge and the Sierra Maestra volcanic terrain of Cuba to the north as the northeastward moving Caribbean Plate was subducted along the Cuban microplate (Sigurdsson).
The 1989 science fiction film The Abyss is set in the depths of the trench.

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