guyot
/ˈɡiːəʊ
/noun Geology
An undersea mountain with a flat top.Seamounts whose peaks have eroded and become a flat surface are called guyots....
- What remains is an underwater mountain called a guyot.
- After the war he continued researching guyots and midocean ridges, as well as various mineral studies.
Origin
1940s: named after Arnold H. Guyot (1807–84), Swiss geographer.
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- Rayleigh limit
- Rayleigh number
- Rayleigh-scattered
- Rayleigh scattering
- Rayleigh's criterion
- Rayleigh wave
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- Rayleigh–Taylor
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- raylet
- raylike
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- Raymondia
- Raynaud's disease
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- ray of sunshine
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