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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...
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Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
These views made it easier to visualize the ocean floor’s topography and create a physiographic map. Tharp’s careful plotting of six east-to-west profiles across the North Atlantic revealed ...