who is Marie Tharp
Marie Tharp was born on July 30, 1920, in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
who is Marie Tharp
tharp's father worked for the US Department of Agriculture and gave her an early introduction to mapmaking, reminds the doodle.
who is Marie Tharp
She attended the University of Michigan for her master’s degree in petroleum geology.
who is Marie Tharp
In 1948, she moved to New York City and became the first woman to work at the Lamont Geological Observatory where she met geologist Bruce Heezen.
who is Marie Tharp
“Heezen gathered ocean-depth data in the Atlantic Ocean, which Tharp used to create maps of the mysterious ocean floor.
who is Marie Tharp
New findings from echo sounders (sonars used to find water depth) helped her discover the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
who is Marie Tharp
She brought these findings to Heezen, who infamously dismissed this as “girl talk,” says Google on its page dedicated to Tharpe.
who is Marie Tharp
“However, when they compared these V-shaped rifts with earthquake epicenter maps, Bruce Heezen could not ignore the facts.”
who is Marie Tharp
In 1957, Tharp and Heezen co-published the first map of the ocean floor in the North Atlantic.
who is Marie Tharp
Two decades later, National Geographic published the first world map of the entire ocean floor penned by Tharp and Heezen, titled “The World Ocean Floor.