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Marie Tharp

Also Known As M. Tharp
Oceanographer

An American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, barred from research ships for most of her career because she was a woman, mapped the ocean floor from Bruce Heezen's sounding data anyway, and read in its shape the Mid-Atlantic Ridge's central rift valley, the seafloor evidence that helped turn continental drift into plate tectonics. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1920-07-30 1
Birth Year
1920 1
Death Date
2006-08-23 1
Death Year
2006 1
Birthplace
Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States 1
Death Place
Nyack 2
Nationality
American 1
Defining Contribution
Collaborated with geologist Bruce Heezen to produce the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, and in doing so identified the rift valley running down the center of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a discovery that provided crucial physical evidence for seafloor spreading and continental drift at a time when both were still widely doubted. 1
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Source Wikidata: Marie Tharp
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1. Marie Tharp (Wikipedia)
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was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer.
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2. Marie Tharp (Wikidata)
  • P20 (place of death)
    died in Nyack
  • Wikidata item aliases (en) [1]
    also known as M. Tharp
  • P27 (country of citizenship) [1]
    citizen of United States
  • P19 (place of birth) [1]
    born in Ypsilanti
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