Definition of seafloor
: seabed
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The free-swimming submersibles will be equipped with cameras and sensors for temperature and salinity along with sonar capable of looking upward at the bottom of the ice shelf as well as downward at the seafloor.
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Sonar equipment that could image the seafloor is ineffective because of the rocks, Barney said.
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The research found that from 2010 through 2016, about 80 square miles per year of ice is being lifted off of the seafloor and going afloat as grounding lines retreat.
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Clearly, much plastic is sinking and doing its damage at the seafloor, or in lower depths of the ocean.
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Clearly, much plastic is sinking and doing its damage at the seafloor, or in lower depths of the ocean.
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On a routine expedition in 1987, oceanographers in the submersible Alvin were mapping the typically barren, nutrient-poor seafloor in the Santa Catalina Basin, off the shore of southern California.
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The idea that Americans should throw open the gates on public lands and the seafloor to energy developers, inviting landscape and habitat degradation in order to raise funds to fix roads and bathrooms in the national parks, is a tough sell.
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The USS Juneau was found on St. Patrick’s Day resting on the seafloor near the Solomon Islands.
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First Known Use of seafloor
1855
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: the ground that is at the bottom of the sea
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