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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 ...
The Conversation on MSN2mon
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 ...
Earth.com11d
NASA's new underwater map reveals nearly 100,000 hidden mountains beneath the ocean
New high-resolution satellite map reveals nearly 100,000 unknown ocean mountains, or seamounts, boosting climate and maritime ...
BBC16y
The Atlantic Ocean - Black Hole of Andros
The Atlantic is the second largest ocean on the planet ... This toxic layer looks so dark it resembles the hole's floor but is actually a boundary which separates oxygenated water from oxygen ...
Phys.org on MSN12d
Mapping the Ocean Floor with Ancient Tides
A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.