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Marie Tharp - Wikipedia Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 – August 23, 2006) was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer In the 1950s, she collaborated with geologist Bruce Heezen to produce the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor [1]
Marie Tharp - Ages of Exploration Marie Tharp produced one of the world’s first maps of the ocean floor Despite being a woman in a male dominated career, her work helped bring to life the unknown ocean world, and helped prove important information about our earth’s development
About Marie Tharp | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Today, Marie Tharp is recognized for the revolutionary that she was In 1997, the Library of Congress named her as one of the four greatest cartographers of the 20th century She died of cancer in 2006 at the age of 86, but her legacy lives on in the countless women scientists she has inspired
Marie Tharp Biography - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Marie Tharp Biography Taken From "Connect the Dots: Mapping the Seafloor and Discovering the Mid-ocean Ridge" by Marie Tharp, Chapter 2 in Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia
Tharp, Marie - Marie Tharp | Encyclopedia. com Marie Tharp is a mapmaker who charted the bottom of the ocean at a time when little was known about undersea geology Her detailed maps showed features that helped other scientists understand the structure and evolution of the sea floor
8 Surprising Facts About Marie Tharp, Mapmaker Extraordinaire Tharp passed away in 2006, but her work has forever changed the fields of geology and ocean exploration Below, read some of the lesser-known facts about this history-making cartographer
Marie Tharp - Columbia University A pioneer of modern oceanography, Tharp was the first to map details of the ocean floor on a global scale Her observations became crucial to the eventual acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift in the earth sciences
Marie Tharp—Plate Tectonics Pioneer Tharp’s unconventional educational history made possible her 1952 discovery of the worldwide mid-oceanic rift valley In addi-tion to her eclectic undergraduate coursework, she rounded out her scientific training while at Michigan, taking extra classes in physics, math, and chemistry