In 1890, former students of Arnold Guyot at the University of Neuchàtel dedicated a ‘large glacial boulder from Neuchâtel’ to his memory, now in front of Guyot Hall at Princeton University. We established that this block originated with all certainty from Upper Carboniferous conglomerates of the Salvan–Dorénaz Basin, the relics of which crop out in the Alps of western Switzerland and eastern France. During the Last Glacial Maximum, the boulder travelled from the lower Rhône Valley on the back of the Pleistocene Rhône Glacier to Neuchâtel from where, later, it crossed the Atlantic and was transported to Princeton. Guyot’s name is familiar to geologists because of the term ‘guyot’, introduced 1946 by Harry Hess for ‘curious flat-topped peaks scattered over millions of square miles in the Pacific basin’, many of which are now known to represent drowned carbonate platforms.

1890 年，Arnold Guyot 在纳沙泰尔大学的前学生将一块“来自纳沙泰尔的大型冰川巨石”献给他，现在在普林斯顿大学的 Guyot 大厅前。我们确定该区块完全起源于 Salvan-Dorénaz 盆地的上石炭纪砾岩，其遗迹出现在瑞士西部的阿尔卑斯山和法国东部。在末次冰川盛期期间，巨石从更新世罗纳冰川背面的罗纳河谷下游到达纳沙泰尔，后来从那里横渡大西洋并被运往普林斯顿。Guyot 的名字对地质学家来说很熟悉，因为“guyot”这个词是由 Harry Hess 于 1946 年引入的，意为“散布在太平洋盆地数百万平方英里内的奇特平顶山峰”，