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![A profile view of Seine Bank in: Geographie des Atlantischen Ozeans by GerhardSchott, 1912 map00070.jpg A profile view of Seine Bank in: Geographie des Atlantischen Ozeans by GerhardSchott, 1912](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/https/s3.amazonaws.com/s3-east-testmedia-noaa.woc.noaa.gov/dam/Photos/legacy/pl23_map00070.jpg?itok=ItcmnM4h)
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A profile view of Seine Bank in: Geographie des Atlantischen Ozeans by GerhardSchott, 1912. It shows a flat-topped seamount, what we would today call aguyot. In fact, many of the seamounts discovered prior to the invention of theecho sounder were flat-topped seamounts having a wide surface area on the topincreasing the probability of discovery by widely spaced piano-wire soundings. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Collection)