seafloor

noun

sea·floor ˈsē-ˌflȯr

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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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 The oldest layers contained prehistoric organic carbon that represents the remains of microbes that once thrived on the seafloor. —

Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024 Meanwhile, on the seafloor were all these yellow and red and warm colored filter feeding organisms creating this sort of shag carpet of life. —

Jill Heinerth, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024 The rocks below the impact layer, predating the cataclysm, were filled with fine black layers of ancient organic carbon—the remains of gooey mats of microbes that flourished on the seafloor before being buried, squished and cooked by mundane geological processes. —

Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for seafloor