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Atoll vs Guyot - What's the difference?

atoll | guyot |

As nouns the difference between atoll and guyot

is that atoll is a type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls while guyot is a flat-topped seamount.

atoll

English

(wikipedia atoll)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls.

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    guyot

    English

    (wikipedia guyot)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (oceanography) A flat-topped seamount.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, page 158:
    • It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.

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