guyot
nounUK /ˈɡiː.əʊ/ · US /ɡiˈoʊ/
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.
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Geography, Natural sciences, Oceanography A flat-topped seamount.
- 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: