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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Gigantic 'mud waves' buried deep beneath the ocean floor reveal dramatic formation of Atlantic when Africa and South America finally split
Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.