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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The cavities were about four inches beneath the seafloor and filled with 77 degree Fahrenheit water.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Direct evidence of animal life beneath the seafloor would require more heavy lifting — literally.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
Hydrothermal vents, which were first discovered on Earth in 1977 in the Galapagos Rift, may be scattered across the Europan seafloor too, further heating the water.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
There were other problems to solve, too, not least how the bulk of the Deep Pots cargo—the porcelain and the canes on the seafloor—could have been carried by the Modena.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Direct evidence of animal life beneath the seafloor would require more heavy lifting — literally.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
Hydrothermal vents, which were first discovered on Earth in 1977 in the Galapagos Rift, may be scattered across the Europan seafloor too, further heating the water.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
There were other problems to solve, too, not least how the bulk of the Deep Pots cargo—the porcelain and the canes on the seafloor—could have been carried by the Modena.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Seafloor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seafloor. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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