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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.
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NOAA Central Library Historical Collection
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
Bathymetric Maps Collection
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Exploration
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