The volume of sediment in the deep- seafan was determined from mapping on publicly available seismic-reflection data.
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They retracted like seafans when a diver brushes them below a coral sea.
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The blue sky was overhead and the air of the seafanned their cheeks.
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There were desiccated seafans under their spreading limbs, so old their colors had leached to transparency.
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There were thunderstones, bloodstones, serpentines and agates; feather stars, seafans, sea lilies and corals; scorpions, scarabs and iridescent beetles.
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In the zoophyte branch, class Alcyonaria, one finds the order Gorgonaria, which contains three groups: seafans, isidian polyps, and coral polyps.
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Seafans and plumes, with thinner branches and smaller polyps, favor higher metabolic rates, compared to sea rods with thicker branches and larger polyps.