Marie Tharp’s topographical maps helped to revolutionise our understanding of the sea floor. With the 100th anniversary of her birth, geoscientists are still building on her work, writes Suzanne O’Connell
A hand-painted rendition by Heinrich Berann of the Heezen-Tharp 1977 world ocean floor map Well into the 1950s, many scientists assumed that the seabed was featureless. Tharp showed that it contained rugged terrain, and that much of it was laid out in a systematic way.
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