{"id":1668,"date":"2015-04-29T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluehabitats.org\/?page_id=1668"},"modified":"2015-05-04T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T09:00:00","slug":"guyots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/?page_id=1668","title":{"rendered":"Guyots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guyots<\/em> \u2013\u00a0 \u00a0Guyots (pronounced \u201cGhe Oh\u2019s\u201d) are \u201can isolated (or group of) seamount (s) having a comparatively smooth flat top. Also called tablemount(s)\u201d (IHO, 2008).\u00a0 Harris et al. (2014) mapped 283 guyots covering a total area of 707,600 km2<\/sup>.\u00a0 Guyots have an average area of 2,500 km2<\/sup>, more than twice the average area of seamounts.\u00a0 Nearly 50% of guyot area and 42% of the number of guyots occur in the North Pacific Ocean, covering 342,070 km2<\/sup> (see Table).\u00a0 The largest three guyots are all in the North Pacific: the Kuko Guyot (estimated 24,600 km2<\/sup>), Suiko Guyot (estimated 20,220 km2<\/sup>) and the Pallada Guyot (estimated 13,680 km2<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Bathymetric false-colour image of the Gifford Guyot, located in the Tasman Sea east of Australia (after Geoscience Australia: http:\/\/www.ga.gov.au\/ausgeonews\/ausgeonews200803\/survey.jsp<\/p>\n

Statistics on guyots (after Harris et al., 2014)<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Bathymetric false-colour image of the Gifford Guyot<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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For details of guyot evolution and biota, see entry for \u201cseamounts<\/em>\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

[vc_table vc_table_theme=”classic_blue” allow_html=””]Ocean,Guyot%20Area%20km2,Guyot%20Area%25,Guyot%20Number,Mean%20Guyot%20size%20km2|Arctic%20,0,0.00,0,0|Indian%20Ocean,67%2C010,0.0941,28,2%2C390|Mediterranean%20%26%20Black%20Sea%20,2%2C800,0.0926,2,1%2C400|North%20Atlantic%20Ocean,31%2C640,0.0707,8,3%2C960|North%20Pacific%20Ocean,499%2C990,0.610,119,4%2C200|South%20Atlantic%20Ocean,133%2C710,0.331,43,3%2C110|South%20Pacific%20Ocean,187%2C900,0.215,77,2%2C440|Southern%20Ocean,13%2C870,0.0682,6,2%2C310|All%20Oceans,936%2C920,0.259,283,3%2C310[\/vc_table]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t
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References<\/h5>\n

Harris, P.T., MacMillan-Lawler, M., Rupp, J., Baker, E.K., 2014. Geomorphology of the oceans. Marine Geology 352, 4-24.<\/p>\n

IHO, 2008. Standardization of Undersea Feature Names: Guidelines Proposal form Terminology, 4th ed. International Hydrographic Organisation and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Monaco, p. 32. http:\/\/www.iho.int\/iho_pubs\/bathy\/B-6_e4_EF_Nov08.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guyots \u2013\u00a0 \u00a0Guyots (pronounced \u201cGhe Oh\u2019s\u201d) are \u201can isolated (or group of) seamount (s) having a comparatively smooth flat top. Also called tablemount(s)\u201d (IHO, 2008).\u00a0 Harris et al. (2014) mapped 283 guyots covering a total area of 707,600 km2.\u00a0 Guyots have an average area of 2,500 km2, more than twice the average area of seamounts.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1646,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1668","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1668\/revisions\/1786"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}