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Bruce Charles Heezen
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Bruce Charles Heezen was an American geologist, born in 1924 in Vinton, Iowa, and died in 1977. Working at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, he collaborated with oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp to map the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the 1950s, work that revealed the global mid-ocean ridge system and contributed evidence supporting plate tectonics.
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