Seafloor in a sentence

He added, “We have two ROVs that are capable of operating on the seafloor and are operating on the seafloor right now.

Side-scan sonar imagery is also a commonly used tool to detect debris items and other obstructions on the seafloor that may be hazardous to shipping or to seafloor installations by the oil and gas industry.

But the study shows that plastic is changing the landscape of the seafloor — even 10,000 metres below the waves.

Major storms and the constantly changing seafloor can cause false alarms or damage sensors.

Numerous large vessels had entered old fishing grounds in Cavite and dredged the seafloor, which, as a result, devastated and damaged the marine ecosystem in the area.

Once trapped in the seafloor they no longer degrade, either due to a lack of erosion, oxygen or light.

Remarkably, some heatwaves only affect the seafloor.

Scientists also must determine how many different chemicals are still in the ocean and how widespread they are on the deep seafloor, Valentine said.

That energy interacts with other incoming waves, producing a pressure signal that turns into seismic waves at the seafloor.

The deep seabed covers roughly two-thirds of the total seafloor.

The implications of knowing are incalculable, particularly as deep sea mineral prospectors prepare to run tank-like industrial equipment across parts of the seafloor.

The platform can sail to a designed location and then extend legs to anchor itself to the seafloor and raise the platform out of the water.

According to researchers, demographic shifts among Gulf of Maine lobsters—habitat, size and population density—may have resulted from a drop in baby lobsters surviving to the seafloor and less competition between individual lobsters.

A high-resolution synthetic aperture sonar image of DD-224, formerly the U.S.S. Stewart, a ship resting on the seafloor of the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

By changing the flow of water and sediment, the container completely changes the micro-ecosystem around it — impacting seafloor species that scientists are still discovering.

Environmental scientists worry that harvesting nodules will send up plumes of sediment into the water and kill anything living on the seafloor, such as brittle stars and bizarre sea cucumber species like the one known as the gummy squirrel.

Mining on the seafloor could affect oxygen levels, and threaten biorich ecosystems in previously unknown ways.

Some of the damage also appeared to have been caused by an anchor, based on the tracks on the seafloor, Heffner added.

The authors also found that the most damaged areas of the fault allow the greatest amount of fluids to seep up from the seafloor, because areas with broken rocks are more permeable.

The GSI said it was formed at the beginning of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, adding its formation involved dense gravity currents actively scouring and carving the seafloor at significant depths.