Example Sentences

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This bathymetric image mapped by the submersible shows a portion of the seafloor at the base of the mountain, in brown.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024

In their model, the researchers combined available data on ocean movements and the sea state, as well as water depths and bathymetric information.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2023

One type of rip, known as a bathymetric or channel rip current, forms when there are gaps between breaking waves.

From Scientific American • Jul. 25, 2023

In 2010, an Iraqi graduate student commissioned a bathymetric survey of the reservoir floor, which is more than a hundred and sixty feet underwater.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016

With its haughty Roman nose and long, ropelike neck, which it coils and twists in a most incredible manner, it seems specially intended to distract one's mind from bathymetric disappointments.

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Bingham, Hiram