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- 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'...
- Seafloor spreading, or seafloor spread, is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and...
- 20th century. Plate tectonics came to be accepted by geoscientists after seafloor spreading was validated in the mid-to-late 1960s. The processes that result...
- support safety of surface or sub-surface navigation, and usually show seafloor relief or terrain as contour lines (called depth contours or isobaths)...
- A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics. It typically has a depth of about 2,600 meters (8,500 ft) and rises about...
- are diverging and new crust is being formed. The water that issues from seafloor hydrothermal vents consists mostly of seawater drawn into the hydrothermal...
- sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have ac****ulated on the seafloor. These particles either have...
- trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the seafloor. It is also referred to as "dragging". The scientific community divides...
- the seafloor on the flanks of a mid-ocean ridge is determined mainly by the age of the oceanic lithosphere; older seafloor is deeper. During seafloor spreading...
- : 356  Polymetallic sulphides appear on seafloor m****ive sulfide deposits. They appear on and within the seafloor when mineralized water discharges from...