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Marie Tharp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 - August 23, 2006) was a geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, along with her colleague Bruce Heezen, mapped the ocean floor including the Mid-Oceanic Ridges, a lin...
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Marie Tharp (1920–) Oceanographer Faculty 1948–83. A pioneer of modern oceanography, Tharp was the first to map details of the ocean floor on a global scale ...
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Marie Tharp biography, including 5 pages of information on the life of Marie Tharp. ... 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.
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Aug 26, 2006 ... Marie Tharp was an oceanographic cartographer whose work in the 1950's, 60's and 70's helped throw into relief the largely uncharted ...
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Marie Tharp, a pathbreaking oceanographic cartographer at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, co-creator of the first global map of the ocean floor and co-discoverer of the central rift valley that runs through the Mid-Atlantic Ridge died Wednesday August 23 in Nyack Hospital.
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ack when Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory was simply called Lamont, when few women were in her field and when there were no computers to do the work, Marie Tharp sat at a long desk in front of a long sheet paper and with a pencil and ruler painstakingly plotted soundings of the Atlantic Ocean’s floor.
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Tharp is now assisting G&M as Library staff sort through the collection of more than 40,000 items ranging from water data and geologic and earthquake information, to gravity data, reference maps, technical journals, reports, ... Plumbing Depths to Reach New Heights; Marie Tharp Explains Marine Geological Maps...
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Discusses her childhood and Tharp family history; her work in seismology and cartography with Lamont Doherty Observatory, National Geographic, and Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute; plotting the Mid-Atlantic Ridge;
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