tablemount

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noun

A seamount with a flat top; synonym of guyot.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nountablemount (plural tablemounts)

plural tablemounts

  1. A seamount with a flat top; synonym of guyot.

    This study recommended establishment as preserves an abyssal trench, an underseas tablemount, and an atoll.

    1966, Naturalist - Volumes 17-19, page 257
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    The theory that the tablemounts were decapitated by great oscillations of sea level, owing to water becoming locked up in ice caps or to some other cause, seems to be definitely ruled out, since the peaks are not concordant.

    1959 January, Robert S. Dietz, “Drowned Ancient Islands of the Pacific”, in New Scientist, volume 5, number 111, page 16

    Frequently, tops of tablemounts contain evidence of shallow-water conditions (such as ancient coaral reeef deposits) that were carried with it into deeper water.

    2005, Alan P. Trujillo, Harold V. Thurman, Essentials of Oceanography, page 65

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