hardbottom
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edithardbottom (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[1], :
- 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.