| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-321) and index. |
| Summary |
A portrait of one of the most interesting "forgotten" women of the twentieth century, the scientist who mapped, for the first time, the ocean floor. Until Marie Tharp's groundbreaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Tharp's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean's depth across its entire expanse), Tharp turned this data into beautiful and controversial maps that laid the groundwork for proving the theory of continental drift. Her maps have been called some of "the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography." |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.0 21.0 153972. |
| Subject |
Tharp, Marie.
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Cartographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Geomorphologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Women cartographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Submarine topography.
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| ISBN |
9780805092158 hardback $30.00 |
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0805092153 hardback $30.00 |
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