seabed , also: sea bed BrE
seafloor , also: sea floor

This old seabed is now among the best agricultural land in the country.

"We may be having a grave impact on the deep seabed."

Most of Earth's supply is contained in soils and seabeds.

They are good but not excellent in most seabeds.

This includes other sea life from the deep seabed.

Only a small fraction of the deep seabed has been investigated."

It is typically found on coastal seabeds around northwestern Europe.

It is generally found on the sandy seabeds of the open sea, near the shore.

They burn black, with a light that casts shadow across the entire seabed.

The very seabeds trembled, and great waves began to pound the harbor.

The exposed seabed is a mixture of sand and mud flats.

A beach break takes place where waves break on a sandy seabed.

And for another, no sample of sediment from the seabeds had ever been recovered that was older than 100 million years.

The dark seabed had become a well-lit parking lot.

Under the North Slope is an ancient seabed - the source of the oil.

What didn't, lay two fathoms deep on a Mediterranean seabed.

As the emerging continent shrugged and shifted, so the old seabed was lifted above the surface.

Most of the ancient seabeds are now exposed.

The comb star spends much of its time buried in the silty seabed.

In 1910, drillers looking for oil hit the hot springs that service the hotel, remains of an ancient seabed.

Seabed samplers are also available, which push the collection tube slowly into the soil.

The magnificent star can move rapidly, appearing to glide across the sandy seabed.

The bottom of the bay fell in a series of shelves into the deeper seabeds beyond.

The structures also operate at a higher temperature than the ambient seabed, and they use chemical energy to make that possible.

Slightly more than a thousand kilometers to the south the expedition crawled forward over the ancient seabed.

They are found in open water and on the sea bed.

We must be very close to the sea bed now.

You can see these on the sea bed floor during the following day.

It is possible to walk across the sea bed of that time, 400 million years ago.

Three weeks later, the plane was located on the sea bed.

It was returned to the sea bed on the next dive.

Here you can see the side of the ship crushed against the sea bed.

"An old sea bed," he said in an almost normal voice.

It came from the place where our lead had found that hole in the bottom of the sea bed.

How could she feel the sea bed below her, and know what lay concealed there?

He had fished them up from the sea bed and made a necklace for her.

Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the sea bed.

But still we weren't through to the sea bed, though there was plenty of water about.

"Perhaps there are issues with the sea bed or reef.

Some octopus species are also able to walk along the sea bed.

This now lay on the sea bed, weighed down by rocks.

At low tide, it was shallow enough for people to walk across on the sea bed.

It is a deep water species and lives on rocky sea beds.

The sea bed is a mixture of mud and sand.

It was a bit of the sea bed, nothing more.'

The piles are driven deep into the sea bed to reduce the moment on them.

The souls then began to form bodies with the clay on the sea bed.

During construction the sea bed gave way and one of the tunnels was flooded.

The section had come loose either during the sinking or as a result of the impact with the sea bed.

At a later stage they become detached from their base and drift around on the sea bed.