variants
or less commonly sea floor
plural seafloors also sea floors
: the floor of a sea or ocean : seabed
The Earth's crust, in this view, is divided into several immense plates that make up the continents and seafloors, and that all float on a hot, plastic, subterranean "mantle."—
Walter Sullivan
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Instead of needing a long buoy-line suspended in the water column for extended periods of time, the rope and buoy can be stored at the bottom of the seafloor or replaced with an inflatable bag.
—Francine Kershaw, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
Thousands of feet below the surface of the South China Sea, scientists aboard a submarine stared at the seafloor.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
But if the seafloor on Hycean worlds is made of ice, that would place important limits on how nutrients can flow from the rocky interior.
—Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
Using a deep-sea robot, UC Santa Barbara scientists discovered an eerie graveyard of leaking barrels in 2020, spread out on the seafloor near Santa Catalina Island.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
During its final journey, three internet cables laid on the seafloor in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait were damaged.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2024
Concreted cannonballs from the HMS Tyger on the seafloor.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2024
For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles.
—Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
Now — after more than 700 gray whales have washed ashore in Mexico, Canada, California and other U.S. states since late 2018 — new research published Tuesday in PLOS One suggests the culprit was a critical drop in food availability in the mammals’ Arctic and sub-Arctic seafloor feeding grounds.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Francine Kershaw, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
Thousands of feet below the surface of the South China Sea, scientists aboard a submarine stared at the seafloor.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
But if the seafloor on Hycean worlds is made of ice, that would place important limits on how nutrients can flow from the rocky interior.
—Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
Using a deep-sea robot, UC Santa Barbara scientists discovered an eerie graveyard of leaking barrels in 2020, spread out on the seafloor near Santa Catalina Island.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
During its final journey, three internet cables laid on the seafloor in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait were damaged.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2024
Concreted cannonballs from the HMS Tyger on the seafloor.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2024
For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles.
—Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
Now — after more than 700 gray whales have washed ashore in Mexico, Canada, California and other U.S. states since late 2018 — new research published Tuesday in PLOS One suggests the culprit was a critical drop in food availability in the mammals’ Arctic and sub-Arctic seafloor feeding grounds.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
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