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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish itTharp 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 frontierThese 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 ...
The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic ... north through the Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ...
The oceanic crust at North Pond is relatively young (8 million ... can reach 400 degrees C at hydrothermal vents in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where tectonic plates are diverging and new oceanic ...
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