27°17.17′N 151°49.39′E / 27.28617°N 151.82317°E[1]
MIT
Location in the Marshall Islands
MIT Guyot is a guyot in the Pacific Ocean that rises to a depth of 1,323 metres (4,341 ft). It has a 20-kilometre-long (12 mi) summit platform and formed during the Cretaceous in the region of present-day French Polynesia through volcanic eruptions.
The volcano was eventually covered by a carbonate platform resembling that of a present-day atoll which was colonized by a number of animals. A major volcanic episode disrupted this platform, which subsequently redeveloped until it drowned in the late Albian.
- ^ Jansa & Arnaud Vanneau 1995, p. 312.