guyot

n. [地]海底平顶山,平顶海山

发音

UK /ˈɡiː.əʊ/
US /ɡiˈoʊ/

词形变化

guyots 复数 guyots

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A flat-topped seamount.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

seamount

词源

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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