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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
Tharp’s map provided some of the necessary missing evidence. If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...
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Mid-ocean ridge
The first discovered mid-ocean ridge was the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is a spreading center that bisects the North and South Atlantic basins; hence the origin of the name 'mid-ocean ridge'. Most ...
The ocean that keeps widening every year pushing Europe and America further apart
The continents of America and Europe are slowly becoming further apart as the Atlantic Ocean gets wider due to forces deep ...
Marie Tharp: Mapping the seafloor
The structure of the ocean floor is extremely vast and irregular. In 1948, when Marie Tharp started working at the Lamont ...