Guyot

Guyot

A type of seamount that has a platform top. Named for a nineteenth-century Swiss-American geologist.

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guyot

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A flat-topped submarine mountain.

guyot

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guyot

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A type of seamount that has a platform top. Named for a nineteenth-century Swiss-American geologist.

guyot

Fishing; Marine fishery

Submerged earthform at depths >200 meters consisting of a flat-topped seamount with a cap of the carbonate remains of a drowned atoll.

guyot

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An undersea mountain which is characterized by a flattened summit.

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