softbottom
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]softbottom (countable and uncountable, plural softbottoms)
- A soft seafloor, typically composed of muddy sediment.
- 2015 July 9, “Identifying Suitable Locations for Mesophotic Hard Corals Offshore of Maui, Hawai‘i”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Including acoustic backscatter and/or an accurate map denoting hardbottom and softbottom locations may help capture additional, low-relief hardbottom areas, and help improve future Leptoseris predictions.