guyot Oceanogr.
(ˈgiːjəʊ)
[f. the name of the Swiss geographer A. H. Guyot (1807–84).]
A flat-topped, submarine mountain; a kind of sea-mount.
| 1946 H. H. Hess in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CCXLIV. 772 In discussing these submerged flat-topped peaks which rise from the normal ocean floor, the writer will henceforth call them ‘guyots’ after the 19th century geographer, Arnold Guyot. 1959 New Scientist 1 Jan. 14/3 These ‘tablemounts’ (or ‘guyots’, if one prefers to use the non⁓descriptive term of the discoverer, Prof. H. Hess of Princeton) must be deep-drowned ancient islands. 1962 Ibid. 12 Apr. 11/2 The deep flat-topped sea-mounts or guyots which are such a typical feature of the Pacific. 1970 Sci. Amer. Feb. 36 (caption) Mount Asmara..resembles the numerous guyots, or submerged oceanic mountains, whose level summits are usually attributed to wave erosion. |