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guyot

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A guyot (pronounced ), also known as a tablemount , is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain ( seamount ), with a flat top over below the surface of the sea. The diameters of these flat summits can exceed . The guyot was named after the Swiss-American ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean)

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context oceanography English) A flat-topped seamount.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"flat-topped submarine mountain," 1946, named for Swiss geographer/geologist Arnold Guyot (1807-1884).

Usage examples of guyot.

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Boer Politics, by Yves Guyot This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

Yves Guyot quoted facts in contradiction to the assertions which the proposed resolution contained.

It has been reported in utero by Guyot, and was seen to extend up to the thigh, a statement that is most likely fallacious.

Besides the slain, Donop, Guyot, Lheritier, Piquet, Travers, Delort, more, Are vilely wounded.

Measurements were subsequently made by Professor Guyot and by Senator Clingman.

Arazon had been joined on the GA by another field agent, a young, bright-looking Oriental guy, and they were to rendezvous at the guyot with a team of divers travelling on a fast-picket Navy launch out of San Diego.

Humboldt, Maury, and Guyot, Arago, Agassiz, and Pierce, by observation, philosophy, and mathematics, demonstrate the harmony of the physical creation.

We hope, when Professor Guyot completes his cursory survey of heights, made eighteen months ago, he will strive to do as in North Carolina, and supply the deficiency.

Professor Guyot gives its height at 3,684 feet, and that of the Mountain House as 2,245 feet.

Kendrick then handed State Senator Guyot his mobile phone to call the senior partner of a high-powered accounting firm in Richmond, rousing him from a tense game of snooker.

State Senator Guyot his mobile phone to call the senior partner of a high-powered accounting firm in Richmond, rousing him from a tense game of snooker.

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.

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.

Beyond the edges of the guyot, Stateless was unsupported from below-and a solid limestone overhang forty kilometers long, strengthened by biopolymers or not, would have snapped in an instant.

Maria had watched Mitch work hours and days perfecting computer models of his findings, 3-D rotatable graphics of the sub-oceanic landscape, with animated demonstrations of the seismic and geological stages in that landscape's evolution: the fractures, trenches, plains, seamounts and guyots.