guyot

[ US /ˈɡaɪət/ ]
NOUN
  1. a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean)
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How To Use guyot In A Sentence

  • After the war he continued researching guyots and midocean ridges, as well as various mineral studies.
  • The anthropoid apes can easily break a cocoanut with their teeth, and Guyot-Daubes thinks that possibly a gorilla has a jaw-force of 200 pounds. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Guyot was at that time forty years old, and was already widely known as a geologist and naturalist, and the delivery of a series of lectures before the Lowell Institute, established his reputation in this country. American Men of Mind
  • Vines are generally cordon or single Guyot trained.
  • Seamounts whose peaks have eroded and become a flat surface are called guyots.
  • One of the most valuable books published on vine-growing and wine-making is that by the justly celebrated Dr. Jules Guyot. The Art of Living in Australia
  • Professor Arnold Guyot, in his memoir of Agassiz, says of the plates for the “Fresh-Water Fishes”: “We wonder at their beauty, and at their perfection of color and outline, when we remember that they were almost the first essays of the newly-invented art of lithochromy, produced at a time when France and Belgium were showering rewards on very inferior work of the kind, as the foremost specimens of progress in the art.” Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
  • What remains is an underwater mountain called a guyot.
  • Study of sedimentary sequences capping the guyots, comprised of a shallow water carbonate buildup,
  • As the ocean crust spread away from the higher ocean ridges, the guyots sank below sea level, becoming completely submerged.
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