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Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science's biggest controversies
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMarie Tharp at her drafting table in Lamont Hall, circa 1961.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and...
Almost a quarter of the ocean floor is now mapped
Engadget· 2 years agoRoughly 25 percent (23.4 percent to be exact) of the Earth’s sea floor has been mapped, thanks to an international initiative known as Seabed 2030....
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTharp with an undersea map at her desk. Rolled sonar profiles of the ocean floor are on the shelf...
Fact check: Oceans have topographic features and are held to Earth by gravity
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe claim: Earth's oceans have no 'elevation features' and are in a 'container' A Facebook post...
Zoom through a 'spectacular' chain of ancient underwater volcanoes on Antarctic ocean floor
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA research expedition in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of seamounts that help to shape the...
The Bold Journey to Reveal Every Dark Inch of the Ocean Floor
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/OET Nautilus Live/GettyThe water is murky as...
First-of-its-kind mission makes major discovery about the unknown depths of our oceans: ‘A...
The Cool Down via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAs of 2023, 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. And yet, over 80% of the world’s oceans...
Clearest-ever seafloor maps show deep-sea 'Grand Canyon' off US coast in stunning detail
Live Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoBy combining high-definition maps with sensors that detect changes in the water column, researchers...
6 incredible facts about the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth
CNN via Yahoo News· 12 months agoJust as Earth’s land surface has enormous peaks and valleys, the oceanic world has similarly varied...
Op-Ed: The technology to fight climate change that we're not using nearly enough
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis summer, I descended more than 6.7 miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in a two-seat submarine to the world’s deepest undersea chasm, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. My goal ...