different between guyot vs seamount
guyot
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??i?j??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?i?jo?/
Noun
guyot (plural guyots)
- (oceanography) A flat-topped seamount.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158:
- 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 Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158:
Anagrams
- gouty
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seamount
English
Etymology
sea +? mount
Noun
seamount (plural seamounts)
- A mountain that rises from the floor of the ocean and does not breach the water's surface.
Derived terms
- seamount chain
Translations
See also
- guyot
Anagrams
- outnames
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