Food-fall

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of food fall. alt-of, alternative

    "Soltwedel, Thomas; von Juterzenka, Karen; Premke, Katrin; Klages, Michael (17 November 2003), “What a lucky shot! Photographic evidence for a medium-sized natural food-fall at the deep seafloor”, in Oceanologica Acta, volume 26, numbers 5–6 (overall work in English and French), →DOI, →ISSN, pages 623–628: “Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare.”"

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"Soltwedel, Thomas; von Juterzenka, Karen; Premke, Katrin; Klages, Michael (17 November 2003), “What a lucky shot! Photographic evidence for a medium-sized natural food-fall at the deep seafloor”, in Oceanologica Acta, volume 26, numbers 5–6 (overall work in English and French), →DOI, →ISSN, pages 623–628: “Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare.”"

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