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Definition of Sea bottom
1. Noun. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
Specialized synonyms: Abyssal Zone, Continental Shelf, Bathyal District, Bathyal Zone, Continental Slope, Neritic Zone, Twilight Zone
Generic synonyms: Bed, Bottom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Bottom
Literary usage of Sea bottom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"Mr. Murray thinks it likely that not only all the pieces of pumice which float
on the surface, but those spread over the sea-bottom, have been ejected from ..."
2. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"CHAPTER XXV MATERIALS OF THE sea bottom Dredging. The material on the bottom of
the sea has been made known by dredging. Various forms of apparatus have ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... and which, under the stimulus of the prevailing color of the habitat, cause
the animal to simulate in hue the ground, or tree, or sea-bottom. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... consequently, the flinty little shells aggregated along the sea-bottom, and
there formed what are now known as flint-bands, and nodules. ..."
5. The Bottom of the Sea by Léon Sonrel (1875)
"How the gradual change of the Sea-bottom can be demonstrated —Modifications which
the Map of Europe would suffer by a gradual subsidence of Thirty Feet in a ..."
6. College Physiography by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin (1914)
"EFFECT OF ELEVATION Relation to sea bottom. — Uplift brings the sea bottom into
the air; and the coast line has a form dependent upon the outline of the sea ..."
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