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Sea bottom

noun

The bottom of a sea or ocean. Synonyms: Davy Jones, Davy Jones's locker, ocean bottom, ocean floor, sea floor, seabed.

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"Sea bottom" Quotes from Famous Books

... published a detailed account of it.* In both cases the only obvious explanation is that these huge blocks—too massive to have been hove up from deep water into their present position by any storm—reached their present level by the elevation of the sea bottom on ...

— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray

... and navigable one, as long as the land retains its present level. To make that, there must be a general subsidence of the land and sea bottom around. For surf, when eating into land, gnaws to little deeper than low-water mark: no deeper, probably, than the bottoms of the troughs between the waves. Its tendency is—as one may see along the Ramsgate cliffs—to ...

— At Last • Charles Kingsley

... cheery story cannot be told. She was jealous of the first. It would be another two months at least before she would go in dock for refit; and among the watch below there were three new hands on their first voyage, two of whom would, just then, have preferred the peace and stillness of the sea bottom to the friskiness ...

— Submarine Warfare of To-day • Charles W. Domville-Fife

Words linked to "Sea bottom" : bathyal zone, ocean bottom, bathyal district, bottom, neritic zone, bed, abyssal zone, continental slope, sea floor, twilight zone, ocean floor, continental shelf