Guyot. Aerial photograph of a guyot in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia, Africa. The Awash River is seen across top left. Guyots are underwater volcanoes

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Guyot. Aerial photograph of a guyot in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia, Africa. The Awash River is seen across top left. Guyots are underwater volcanoes that have flat tops due to wave erosion. The presence of a guyot in the Afar Depression shows that the area was once beneath the Red Sea.

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Size: 3012px × 3012px
Photo credit: © BERNHARD EDMAIER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: aerial, afar, africa, african, awash, danakil, depression, east, eroded, erosion, ethiopia, flat, flattened, floodplain, geographical, geography, geological, geology, guyot, photography, rift, river, tablemount, triangle, volcanic, volcano, volcanology, vulcanology