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)

  1. (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.

Anagrams

  • gouty

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seamount

English

Etymology

sea +? mount

Noun

seamount (plural seamounts)

  1. 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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