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Definitions for seabed
ˈsiˌbɛdseabed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ocean floor, sea floor, ocean bottom, seabed, sea bottom, Davy Jones's locker, Davy Jonesnoun

    the bottom of a sea or ocean

Wiktionary

  1. seabednoun

    The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean

Wikipedia

  1. Seabed

    The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean. All floors of the ocean are known as 'seabeds'. The structure of the seabed of the global ocean is governed by plate tectonics. Most of the ocean is very deep, where the seabed is known as the abyssal plain. Seafloor spreading creates mid-ocean ridges along the center line of major ocean basins, where the seabed is slightly shallower than the surrounding abyssal plain. From the abyssal plain, the seabed slopes upward toward the continents and becomes, in order from deep to shallow, the continental rise, slope, and shelf. The depth within the seabed itself, such as the depth down through a sediment core, is known as the “depth below seafloor.” The ecological environment of the seabed and the deepest waters are collectively known, as a habitat for creatures, as the “benthos.” Most of the seabed throughout the world's oceans is covered in layers of marine sediments. Categorized by where the materials come from or composition, these sediments are classified as either: from land (terrigenous), from biological organisms (biogenous), from chemical reactions (hydrogenous), and from space (cosmogenous). Categorized by size, these sediments range from very small particles called clays and silts, known as mud, to larger particles from sand to boulders. Features of the seabed are governed by the physics of sediment transport and by the biology of the creatures living in the seabed and in the ocean waters above. Physically, seabed sediments often come from the erosion of material on land and from other rarer sources, such as volcanic ash. Sea currents transport sediments, especially in shallow waters where tidal energy and wave energy cause resuspension of seabed sediments. Biologically, microorganisms living within the seabed sediments change seabed chemistry. Marine organisms create sediments, both within the seabed and in the water above. For example, phytoplankton with silicate or calcium carbonate shells grow in abundance in the upper ocean, and when they die, their shells sink to the seafloor to become seabed sediments. Human impacts on the seabed are diverse. Examples of human effects on the seabed include exploration, plastic pollution, and exploitation by mining and dredging operations. To map the seabed, ships use acoustic technology to map water depths throughout the world. Submersible vehicles help researchers study unique seabed ecosystems such as hydrothermal vents. Plastic pollution is a global phenomenon, and because the ocean is the ultimate destination for global waterways, much of the world's plastic ends up in the ocean and some sinks to the seabed. Exploitation of the seabed involves extracting valuable minerals from sulfide deposits via deep sea mining, as well as dredging sand from shallow environments for construction and beach nourishment.

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  1. seabed

    The seabed, also known as the ocean floor or sea floor, is the bottom surface of the world's oceans that exists beneath the marine waters. It ranges from the intertidal zone to deep-sea trenches, featuring varying structures such as plains, terraces, hills, and underwater mountains. Seabed is home to a diverse array of marine life and holds rich mineral resources.

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  1. Seabed

    The seabed is the bottom of the ocean.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of seabed in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of seabed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of seabed in a Sentence

  1. Heather Humphreys:

    On current evidence, the other two wreck sites remain buried beneath a protective layer of sand, but the wreck of La Juliana is now partly exposed on the seabed along with some of its guns and other wreck material, this material is obviously very historically and archaeologically significant.

  2. Lincoln Barnwell:

    The Gloucester was our fourth dive season looking for The Gloucester, we were starting to believe that we were not going to find her, we'd dived so much and just found sand. On my descent to the seabed the first thing I spotted were large cannons laying on white sand, it was awe-inspiring and really beautiful. We were the only people in the world at that moment in time who knew where the wreck lay.

  3. Kobi Sharvit:

    The discovery of such a large hoard of coins that had such tremendous economic power in antiquity raises several possibilities regarding its presence on the seabed, there is probably a shipwreck there of an official treasury boat which was on its way to the central government in Egypt with taxes that had been collected.

  4. Peter Foley:

    We were cautious about this, there were characteristics of the contact that made it unlikely to be MH370, but there were also aspects that generated interest, multiple small bright reflections in a relatively small area of otherwise featureless seabed.

  5. Chris Hoy:

    In that moment, my whole life changed, i completely misjudged the dive and went into the seabed. I hit my head and blacked out for a few seconds.

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