PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bonatti, Enrico
AU  - Tazieff, Haroun
TI  - Exposed Guyot from the Afar Rift, Ethiopia
AID  - 10.1126/science.168.3935.1087
DP  - 1970 May 29
TA  - Science
PG  - 1087--1089
VI  - 168
IP  - 3935
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/168/3935/1087.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/168/3935/1087.full
SO  - Science1970 May 29; 168
AB  - A series of originally submarine volcanoes has been found in the Afar Depression. Some of the volcanic structures are morphologically similar to oceanic guyots. One of them consists of strata of finely fragmented and pulverized basaltic glass. The fragmentation of the lava is probably the result of stream explosions taking place during the submarine eruption. The flat top of this guyot is considered to be a constructional feature; by analogy, it is suggested that not all oceanic guyots are necessarily the result of wave truncation of former volcanic islands.