softbottom

A soft seafloor, typically composed of muddy sediment.

Noun

  1. A soft seafloor, typically composed of muddy sediment.
    • 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. - 2015 July 9,...

Origin

From soft + bottom.

Forms

softbottoms

Related

hardbottom