How to use in-sentence of “ocean floor”:
– A flood basalt or trap basalt is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that coats large stretches of land or the ocean floor with basalt lava.
– Mid-ocean ridges are geologically active, with new magma constantly emerging onto the ocean floor and into the crust at and near rifts along the ridge axes.
– New magma emerges onto the ocean floor near the ridge axis.
– They probably prefer a muddy or clay ocean floor environment, and lead solitary lives.
– Tube feet allow these animals to stick to the ocean floor and move slowly.
– The few exceptions have tectonic origins where plate movements have lifted the deep ocean floor on the surface.
– Radiolaria are found as zooplankton throughout the ocean, and their skeletal remains cover large portions of the ocean floor as radiolarian ooze.
– Flood basalts on the ocean floor produce oceanic plateaus.
