guyot en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɡiˈoʊ/ (US)
- /ˈɡiː.əʊ/ (UK)
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.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| guyots | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
fkv guyotti (flat-topped seamount)
wikipedia: Princeton University · wikipedia: Harry Hammond Hess · wikipedia: Arnold Henry Guyot