Shortly after this the famous H. M. S. Challenger expedition established the study of the sea-floor as a subject worthy of the most qualified physicists and geologists.
此后不久,英國著名的“挑戰(zhàn)者”號艦艇對海底的那次考察,把對海床的研究確立為一個值得一流物理學(xué)家和地質(zhì)學(xué)家從事的研究課題。