Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...
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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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See Human Impact in an X-Ray of the Ocean
Such a map is rare. The vastness and depth of the ocean make it notoriously difficult ... seen reduced human impact—in parts of the North Atlantic, for example, where there are more fuel ...