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Science Clinic => Geography => Topic started by: anjilletteb on Jul 14, 2018
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How does a flat-topped seamount, called a guyot, form?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2
What features on the ocean floor most resemble basalt plateaus on the continents?
What will be an ideal response?
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Answer to Question 1
During their existence, inactive volcanic islands are lowered to near sea level by the forces of weathering and erosion. As the moving plate slowly carries them away from the elevated oceanic ridge or hot spot over which they formed, they gradually sink and disappear below the water surface, at which point we call them guyots.
Answer to Question 2
Oceanic plateaus.