How to pronounce “seafloor” in English

nodules on the seafloor in certain areas, and about the long-lasting impact that mining that might happen here

would have on the seafloor, and particularly about its recovery of ecosystems thereafter.

And the seafloor isn’t just an underwater, sandy beach, either.

This process is called seafloor spreading, and it’s mainly generated by ridge push, the gravity-driven force that causes the new seafloor to sink downward

As long as the seafloor keeps spreading and gravity keeps pulling, Earth’s plates will be carrying us around, shaping and reshaping the world as we know it.

So this is the seafloor mud which has been re-exposed here, which produces a soil when it's eroded and weathered which is very dark, very rich, full of nutrients,

Then colonize the seafloor.

So speaking of technology and seafloor, a recurring theme was how much of the seafloor remains undermapped or understudied in the conference.

And when it comes to the seafloor, it’s not just flat and sandy.

As he strikes out onto the seafloor, he’ll roll along the continental shelf: a part of the ocean floor that’s still continental crust.

And it dumped what was essentially seafloor mud across a great big area, which has been compacted down, had other strata of rock layered on top of it,

And the move from scientists visiting the seafloor in submarines-- you may be familiar with Alvin,

detect things in 3,000 feet of water on the seafloor.

And it gave you a tremendous sense of presence on the seafloor, not least of it from all the other people who you were sharing experience

But the ocean’s geology doesn't just create hotspots of life on the seafloor.

And then these plastic particles start to drift to the sea floor and collect in seafloor sediments the way that real plankton do.

They're essentially flying the drill while on the bottom of the seafloor.

For instance, it's possible now using automated underwater vehicles to map the seafloor and features that maybe

That’s the edge of a tectonic plate, where lots of earthquakes rattle the seafloor.

And when that super-heated fluid comes back up and meets the frigid temperatures at the seafloor, the minerals form stubby spires and towering chimneys—

As of June 2024, we’ve mapped only about a quarter of the world’s seafloor in high resolution.

And in this article, Ballard laid out this new vision for exploring the seafloor which was remote or telepresence.

When all was stable, the whole control van would become concentrated on the seafloor.

So our presence on the seafloor deeply related to what

But again, to go back to, for instance, the manganese, mining example, seafloor mining example, we really need resolution at the seafloor at that level

And there are underwater volcanoes called seamounts, where violent, submarine, volcanic eruptions built up mountains on the seafloor.

Here’s how it happens: at these divergent boundaries, lava erupts in the gaps and then cools and hardens into new oceanic crust, or seafloor.

That process creates a trench, which forms as one plate dives beneath another, bending the seafloor to create a deep v-shaped depression.

They’re generally composed of both continental lithosphere, which makes up the land we can see, and oceanic lithosphere, which makes up the seafloor.

Let’s hang out with some of my geology rock stars… *guitar riff* For a long time, we had no clue what the seafloor looked like.

Over the course of several years, Tharp and Heezen worked with Austrian artist Heinrich Berann to paint an accurate map of the entire seafloor,

down to about, these days its 6,000 meters, and puts the human eyeballs directly on the seafloor.