hardbottom
English
Etymology
hard + bottom
Noun
hardbottom (countable and uncountable, plural hardbottoms)
- A hard seafloor (typically a layer of sand covering rock)
- 2015 July 9, “Identifying Suitable Locations for Mesophotic Hard Corals Offshore of Maui, Hawai‘i”, in PLOS ONE, DOI: :
- Measures of seafloor topographic complexity were used as a proxy for the availability of hardbottom, since a comprehensive map of hard and soft seafloor sediments was also not readily available.
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Related terms
- softbottom