A flat-topped seamount, its summit planed level by wave erosion while it still stood at or near the ocean surface, before subsequent subsidence carried it down to its present, fully submerged depth. Guyots are common across the Pacific Ocean floor and record the same island-subsidence history that produces atolls from once-active volcanic islands.
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Shaped By: Volcanism, LeadQuote, Shaped By: Volcanism, Lead
In marine geology, a guyot (), also called a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain (seamount) with a flat top more than 200 m (660 ft) below the surface of the sea.
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