oceanize

Verb

oceanize (third-person singular simple present oceanizes, present participle oceanizing, simple past and past participle oceanized)

1. (transitive) To cover in ocean.
   • Subsequently V.V. Tikhomirov considered the basification of continental crust, with its conversion into oceanic crust as a result of basic metasomatism, that is, the withdrawal of fluids from the mantle to replace and thus oceanize the granitic-metamorphic layer.1977, Mikhail Vladimirovich Muratov, The Origin of Continents and Ocean Basins, Mir Publishers, page 157
   • Shatskiy (1935) first suggested that large blocks of the continent foundered and have been oceanized where ocean now exists.2013, Alan Nairn, The Arctic Ocean, Springer, →ISBN, page 160