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Yes, that is the definition of a guyot.

Or perhaps limited to a 'mountain' until you know for certain that it was a volcano.

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What is the description of a guyot?

A guyot is a flat-topped sea mount


What is the flat topped sea mount which may once have been a volcano?

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The meaning of a guyot?

it means either a flat topped submarine mountain or a flat topped seamount.


What are underwater mountain range called?

An underwater mountain is known as a "guyot" or a flat topped underwater sea mount. They often do not show up on naval charts and submarines have accidentally run into them. The USS RAY (SSN-653) ran into a coral guyot in the Mediterranean Sea on 20 September 1977 and was severly damaged.


How and why guyots shaped the way they are?

A guyot is a flat topped underwater volcano or seamount. These represent ancient volcanoes that were probably surface features when young. Perhaps even coral atoll's. With sea-floor spreading, these are moved into progressively deeper water.


What are unusual flat-topped seamounts in the ocean called?

Unusual flat-topped seamounts in the ocean are called Guyots. Guyots are submerged volcanic mountains with a flat top that has been eroded by waves and currents over time.


Flat-topped seamounts which exhibit prior surface erosion are called?

Guyot


What is a guyouts?

A guyot, also known as a tablemount, is a flat-topped seamount. It was named after the Swiss-American geographer and geologist Arnold Henry Guyot. The term was coined around 1946 by Harry Hammond Hess. Guyots are most commonly found in the Pacific Ocean.


Whats another word for a underwater volcanic mountain?

We'd call the underwater geographic feature thus described a tablemount or guyot. It's a seamount, which is an underwater mountain, with a flat or platform top.


The ocean floor feature with its characteristic?

Rift zone- Site of crust formationAbyssal plain- Very flat part of ocean floorSubmarine canyon- Part of the continental marginGuyot- Flat-topped, underwater mountain.


Which undersea volcanic has a flat peak?

Guyot


Is a table mountain a volcano?

No, Table Mountain in South Africa is not a volcano. It is a flat-topped mountain formed through erosion and has no volcanic activity associated with it.