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