Harry Hammond Hess
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Harry Hammond Hess was an American geologist and a United States Navy officer in World War II who is considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics. He published th
Grave at Arlington National Cemetery
Guyot
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In marine geology, a guyot, also called a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain with a flat top more than 200 m below the surface of the sea. The diameters of these flat summits can
Harry Hammond Hess
…Hess to collect ocean floor profiles across the North Pacific Ocean, resulting in the discovery of flat-topped submarine volcanoes, which he termed guyots, after the 19th-century geographer Arnold Henry Guyot. After the war, he remained in the Naval Reserve, rising to the rank of rear admiral. In 1960…
The Bear Seamount (left), a guyot in the northern Atlantic Ocean