O'Higgins Guyot vs Capricorn Guyot

O'Higgins Guyot is a flat-topped seamount in the Pacific Ocean, named after Bernardo O'Higgins, the Chilean revolutionary leader associated with the country's independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century. As a guyot, it is an underwater volcanic mountain whose summit has a relatively level profile, generally understood as the result of erosion followed by subsidence below sea level. The...

Capricorn Guyot, also called Capricorn Seamount or Capricorn Tablemount, is a flat-topped submarine volcanic mountain in the southwest Pacific. It rises more than 4 km from the eastern flank of the Tonga Trench and has a broad summit with a second, shallower flat-topped knoll. The crust beneath the seamount is estimated at about 75-95 million years old, making the feature relevant to studies of Pa...