guyot

See also: Guyot

English

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.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡiːjəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡiˈjoʊ/

Noun

guyot (plural guyots)

  1. (oceanography) A flat-topped seamount.
    • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158:
      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.

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