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Darwin Guyot is a volcanic underwater mountain top, or guyot, in the Mid-Pacific Mountains between the Marshall Islands and Hawaii.Named after Charles Darwin, it rose above sea level more than 118 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period to become an atoll, developed rudist reefs, and then drowned, perhaps as a consequence of sea level rise.
Once a seamount is 600 m (2,000 ft) or more under the surface, it is also classed as a guyot. [ failed verification ] [ 1 ] This list documents the most significant volcanoes in the chain, ordered by distance from the hotspot, but there are many others that have yet to be properly studied.
The Bear Seamount (left), a guyot in the northern Atlantic Ocean. In marine geology, a guyot (/ ˈ ɡ iː. oʊ, ɡ iː ˈ oʊ /), [1] [2] also called a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain with a flat top more than 200 m (660 ft) below the surface of the sea. [3] The diameters of these flat summits can exceed 10 km (6 mi). [3]
Koko Guyot is a 48.1-million-year-old guyot, [3] a type of underwater volcano with a flat top, which lies near the southern end of the Emperor seamounts, about 200 km (124 mi) north of the "bend" in the volcanic Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain. [5]
Allison Guyot (formerly known as Navoceano Guyot) is a tablemount in the underwater Mid-Pacific Mountains of the Pacific Ocean.It is a trapezoidal flat mountain rising 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) above the seafloor to a depth of less than 1,500 metres (4,900 ft), with a summit platform 35 by 70 kilometres (22 by 43 mi) wide.
The Bear Seamount is the first guyot in a chain of about 30 extinct volcanoes extending in a straight line south-eastwards from the edge of the continental shelf near Woods Hole, Massachusetts to north-east of Bermuda. These seamounts resulted from the movement of a mantle plume hotspot. This hotspot is now under the Great Meteor Seamount.
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The seamount lies in the Western Pacific Ocean [3] northwest of Marcus Island [5] and about halfway between Japan and the Marshall Islands. [6] The Marcus-Wake Seamounts lie nearby, [3] but MIT Guyot is a more isolated volcanic edifice [2] that is sometimes considered to be a member of the Japanese Seamounts. [7]