ocean bottom
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During these missions, scientists placed ocean bottom seismometers, instruments designed to detect earthquakes directly on the seafloor, along two parts of the Gofar fault.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
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
"We want the US to get ahead of China in this resource space under the ocean, on the ocean bottom," a US official said on Thursday.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
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
