guyot

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡiː.əʊ/    美 /ɡiˈoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.

词形变化

guyots plural

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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