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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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Giant underwater avalanche decimated Atlantic seafloor 60,000 years ago, 1st-of-its-kind map reveals
Related: Large patch of the Atlantic ... The map revealed that after the avalanche exited the canyon, it spread its load across an area roughly the size of Oregon, covering the seafloor in more ...
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Marie Tharp: Mapping the seafloor
Eventually, when she and her colleague Bruce Heezen published the first map of the Atlantic Ocean in 1957, their drawings showed a seafloor covered with canyons, ridges, and mountains. Over the ...
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After five years of work, new seafloor map of the Southern Ocean covering 48 million sq Km
The map, and the methods used to create it, were published in Nature journal Scientific Data. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Version 2 is available here: https://doi.org ...