ocean bottom
Example Sentences
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He once dredged up 17 rings in a single day by sweeping the ocean bottom in a spot where tourists, well into their tequila sunrises, routinely launch themselves off catamarans, their fingers slick with sunscreen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
A23a's behaviour can be explained because the ocean bottom just north of South Orkney is reasonably well surveyed.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024
They concluded the materials recovered from the ocean bottom were tiny, ordinary meteorites -- or particles produced from other meteorites hitting Earth's surface mixed with terrestrial contamination.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
A study in the scientific journal Nature in August found marine heat waves “are not a dominant driver of change” in some species that live near the ocean bottom.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
When dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Denver was part of an ocean bottom, many thousands of feet lower.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
