guyotn.
/ˈɡiːjəʊ/ Oceanography.
A flat-topped, submarine mountain; a kind of sea-mount.
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1946 H. H. Hess in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 244 772 In discussing these submerged flat-topped peaks which rise from the normal ocean floor, the writer will henceforth call them ‘guyots’ after the 19th century geographer, Arnold Guyot.
1959 New Scientist 1 Jan. 14/3 These ‘tablemounts’ (or ‘guyots’, if one prefers to use the non~descriptive term of the discoverer, Prof. H. Hess of Princeton) must be deep-drowned ancient islands.
1962 New Scientist 12 Apr. 11/2 The deep flat-topped sea-mounts or guyots which are such a typical feature of the Pacific.
1970 Sci. Amer. Feb. 36 (caption) Mount Asmara..resembles the numerous guyots, or submerged oceanic mountains, whose level summits are usually attributed to wave erosion.
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