tablemount

A seamount with a flat top; synonym of guyot.

Noun

  1. A seamount with a flat top; synonym of guyot.
    • The theory that the tablemounts were decapitated by great oscillations of sea level, owing to water becoming locked up in ice caps or to some other cause, seems to be definitely ruled out, since the peaks are not...
    • This study recommended establishment as preserves an abyssal trench, an underseas tablemount, and an atoll. - 1966, Naturalist - Volumes 17-19, page 257:
    • Frequently, tops of tablemounts contain evidence of shallow-water conditions (such as ancient coaral reeef deposits) that were carried with it into deeper water. - 2005, Alan P. Trujillo, Harold V. Thurman, Essentials...

Origin

Blend of table + seamount.

Forms

tablemounts

Related

mesa