tablemountnoun [ C ]
/ˈteɪ.bəl.maʊnt//ˈteɪ.bəl.maʊnt/specializeda mountain under the sea with a flat top:
Tablemounts are flat-topped volcanic cones that lie 3,000–6,000 feet below sea level and rise 9,000–15,000 feet above the ocean floor.
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- Most of the 2,000 known tablemounts are concentrated in the western Pacific.
- I ran across this tablemount off the coast of southern California.
- The north-south line of tablemounts in the northwestern Pacific are in the Emperor Seamounts, also an entirely submerged range.
- Reed Bank, a tablemount near the Philippine coast, is rich in untapped oil and gas deposits.
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