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 Translation for 'ocean floor' from English to Dutch
NOUN1   an ocean floor | ocean floors
NOUN2   the ocean floor | -
SYNO Davy Jones | Davy Jones's locker | ocean bottom | ...
geogr.hydro.
oceaanbodem {de}
ocean floor
Partial Matches
geogr.
oceaan {de}
ocean
2
hydro.milieu
oceaanverzuring {de}
ocean acidification
geogr.
Grote Oceaan {de}
Pacific Ocean
geogr.
Zuidelijke IJszee {de}
Southern Ocean
geogr.
Zuidelijke IJszee {de}
Austral Ocean
geogr.
Zuidelijke Oceaan {de}
Southern Ocean
geogr.
Antarctische Oceaan {de}
Antarctic Ocean
geogr.
Zuidpoolzee {de}
Southern Ocean
geogr.
Zuidelijke IJszee {de}
Antarctic Ocean
geogr.
Noordelijke IJszee {de}
Arctic Ocean
geogr.
Stille Oceaan {de}
Pacific Ocean
geogr.
Indische Oceaan {de}
Indian Ocean
geogr.
Atlantische Oceaan {de}
Atlantic Ocean
verdieping {de}floor
4
vloer {de}floor
3
etage {de}floor
bosgrond {de}forest floor
badkamervloer {de}bathroom floor
archi.bouwk.vastg.
keukenvloer {de}
kitchen floor
archi.bouwk.vastg.
met twee verdiepingen {adj} [achtergeplaatst]
two-floor [attr.]
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Usage Examples English
  • Cousteau also took part in inventing the "SP-350 Denise Diving Saucer" in 1959 which was an invention best for exploring the ocean floor, as it allowed one to explore on solid ground.
  • The aim of this regulation is to ensure the preservation of a pristine Arctic island and the marine life nearby, including the ocean floor.
  • The HMS "Challenger" expedition in 1873–1876 mapped the ocean floor for future underwater telegraph cables.
  • The Pacific Ocean floor, however, is being carried northeast by the underlying motion of the Cocos Plate.
  • The larger part of Earth's crust that lies below the ocean hosts the ocean floor at an average bathymetric depth of 4 km and has a terrain as varied as the terrain above sea level.

  • The application was for sonar studies made possible by the unique characteristics of the ocean floor.
  • An important conclusion was that along this system, new ocean floor was being created, which led to the concept of the "Great Global Rift".
  • Animals in the water column are almost entirely dependent on primary production from living phytoplankton, while animals living on or in the ocean floor feed on detritus or can switch to detritus feeding.
  • To the north, the isosurface deepens and reaches the floor of the abyssal plain which is directly related to the ventilation of the ocean floor over 10–20 year time-scales.
  • They are likely to have lived on areas of the ocean floor which received little or no light and fed on detritus which descended from upper layers of the sea to the bottom.

  • All this evidence, both from the ocean floor and from the continental margins, made it clear around 1965 that continental drift was feasible.
  • But such warming could slowly raise ocean temperatures until frozen methane reservoirs below the ocean floor near coastlines melted, expelling enough methane (among the most potent greenhouse gases) into the atmosphere to raise world temperatures an additional five degrees Celsius.
  • He lived in a palace on the ocean floor, made of coral and gems.
  • This involved little guesswork because the idea of sonar is straightforward with pulses being sent from the vessel, which bounce off the ocean floor, then return to the vessel.
  • During this period the region along with most of Eastern Australia was part of the ocean floor; formations from this period include the "Black Mountain Sandstone" formation and the "Pittman Formation" consisting largely of quartz-rich sandstone, siltstone and shale.

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