MIT Guyot
MIT Guyot is a guyot in the Pacific Ocean that rises to a depth of . It has a summit platform and formed during the Cretaceous in the region of present-day French Polynesia through volcanic eruptions. The volcano was eventually covered by a carbonate platform resembling that of a present-day atoll which was colonized by a number of animals. A major volcanic episode disrupted this platform, which subsequently redeveloped until it drowned in the late Albian. Name and research history MIT means Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Drilling in MIT Guyot recovered about of basaltic rocks as part of the Ocean Drilling Program which targeted MIT along with four other guyots of the Pacific Ocean. Geography and geology Local setting The seamount lies in the Western Pacific Ocean northwest of Marcus Island and about halfway between Japan and the Marshall Islands. The Marcus-Wake Seamounts lie nearby, but MIT Guyot is a more isolated volcanic edifice that is sometimes conside ...
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Guyot
In marine geology, a guyot (pronounced ), also known as a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain ( seamount) with a flat top more than below the surface of the sea. The diameters of these flat summits can exceed .Guyot
''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', 2010. Retrieved January 14, 2010. Guyots are most commonly found in the , but they have been identified in all the oceans except the .

History

Guyots were first recognized in 1945 by H ...
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