guyot

A flat-topped seamount.

Noun

  1. A flat-topped seamount.
    • It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot. - 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of...

Origin

Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.

Forms

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