| Subject | English | Romanian |
| econ. | exploitation of the sea-bed | exploatarea platformei marine |
| environ. | sea bed The bottom of the ocean. Also known as sea floor; sea bottom. The ocean floor is defined as the near-horizontal surface of the ocean basin | fundul mării |
| environ. | sea bed exploitation Marine mineral resources extend far beyond those presently exploited; minerals are derived from two separate types of marine sources: from sedimentary deposits underlying the continental shelves and from inshore deposits on the surface of the continental shelves. By far the most valuable of the mineral resources exploited from marine environments is petroleum. Offshore placer deposits on the surface of the continental shelves yield gold, platinum, and tin. On the floors of the world's oceans manganese nodules are found as a result of pelagic sedimentation or precipitation; they are small, irregular, black to brown, friable, laminated concretionary masses consisting primarily of manganese salts and manganese-oxide minerals | exploatarea fundului mării |
| environ. | sea bed mining The activity or processes involving the extraction of mineral deposits from the surface, or below the surface, of the ocean floor | mineritul păturii marine |
| environ. | sea grass bed Seaweeds communities formed by green, brown and red macroscopic algae and by sea phanerogams such as Posidonia oceanica and Zostera noltii, etc. | strat de iarbă de mare |
| econ. | sea-bed | abis marin |
