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ocean bottom

NOUN
  1. the bottom of a sea or ocean

How To Use ocean bottom In A Sentence

  • The presence of other specialized benthos at the crinoid-bearing localities indicates that the ocean bottom locally was not fully anoxic.
  • Bathyal is defined as pertaining to the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones - from depths of approximately 200 to 400 m.
  • The drilling in sulphide mounds at the ocean bottom and their comparison with VMS (volcanogenic massive sulfide) indicate that they have similar internal structures and mineral zonation.
  • Bathyal is defined as pertaining to the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones - from depths of approximately 200 to 400 m.
  • In May an arm of the Chinese government submitted plans to explore the seafloor around an underwater ridge in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar, where hot springs in the ocean bottom called hydrothermal vents have created deposits containing gold, silver, copper, nickel, cobalt, and tellurium (used in computers, CDs, and DVDs). Mining’s Final Frontier
  • The Atlantic wolffish lives along the ocean bottom in deep waters off New England. Home - BostonHerald.com
  • Feel the depth of her gooey blackness - the inkiness of the ocean bottom with predators of shiny eyes and hooks on their body looming around her.
  • We sometimes tend to think that the ocean bottom is made up of smooth plains.
  • Other issue, Kyra, is that the bathymetry, which is a fancy word for saying the way the ocean bottom is shaped, is different in the Atlantic, and the storm surge typically doesn't get that far inland. CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2005
  • Thirty two ocean bottom seismometers will also be deployed to acquire seismic refraction data.
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