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Keywords: Seamount, Underwater, Submerged, Volcano, Mountain

Related Terms: Atoll, Bay, Bluff, Cape, Fiord, Fjord, Foreshore, Groyne, Gulf, Headland, Lagoon, Littoral, Neritic, Promontory, Reef, Roadstead, Shelf, Shoal, Sound, Spit, Oceanic, Seamount, Submarine Canyon, Tidal Flat, Tombolo, Littoral Zone, Barrier Reef, Fringing Reef, Continental Shelf, Oceanic Ridge, Sand Bar, Tidal Marsh, Mauna Loa, Subtidal, Coastal Plain, Backshore, Barrier Beach, Seawall, Pelagic Zone, Coastal Erosion, Embayment, Barrier Island, Mudflat, Abyssal Plain, Sea Stack, Neritic Zone, Beach Ridge, Longshore Bar, Key, Cuspate Foreland

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seamount with a flat plateau on top

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a flat-topped submarine mountain

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sunken remnant of a volcanic island

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A flat-topped submerged mountain or sea-mount found in the ocean.

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A sea mount with a flat top.

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A type of seamount with a flat, platform top.

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a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean)

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an underwater seamount, in case you're wondering

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An underwater volcano with a flat top.

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A type of seamount that has a platform top. Named for a nineteenth-century Swiss-American geologist.

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A guyot is a flat-topped, undersea mountain (a seamount) formed from a volcano.

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a seamount with a platform top. [AHDOS

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A guyot is a flat-topped seamount. Guyots show evidence of having been above the surface with gradual subsidence through stages from fringed reefed mountain, coral atoll, and finally a flat topped submerged mountain. Guyots are very commonly found in the Pacific Ocean, and are considered to be extinct volcanoes.

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