Definition of seafloor
: seabed
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Waves push around vast swaths of saltwater, tides ebb and flow, and over time tectonic rumblings transform the seafloor.
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Seismic surveying involves a ship firing blasts of pressurized air to create powerful sound pulses that penetrate beneath the seafloor.
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The unmanned underwater vehicle, operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), uses far-reaching sonar to identify objects on the seafloor - then circles back to take pictures of anything worthy of a closer look.
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In addition, overfishing along the reefs disrupts their delicate ecological balance, thinning the numbers of fish that help coral grow by eating up algae and turf that occupy the same seafloor.
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The seafloor has been well mapped and picked over by now.
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Seismic surveying involves a ship firing blasts of pressurized air to create powerful sound pulses that penetrate beneath the seafloor.
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That means less sediment to restore marshes and shore-up the sloped seafloor along the Louisiana coast.
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Eventually, over a period of tens of millions of years, seafloor spreading will progress along the entire length of the rift.
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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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