Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor ... and many geologists ...

The geologist, journalist and now best-selling author explores his love of the world's second-largest ocean in Atlantic ... hissing along on a relatively flat sea, when suddenly everything ...

This subduction invasion may drive the closing of the Atlantic Ocean. Maps from the paper showing the evolution of the Gibraltar subduction zone from 30 million years ago to 50 million years into ...

If you jumped in the ocean at Atlantic City, N.J., and started swimming ... Woodruff's lines follow a great circle arc, which look curved on flat maps but are the shortest and straightest lines ...

A map depicting a flat Earth ... media users as evidence the planet is flat. The illustration depicts the continents centered, with the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean ...

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in ... In the past, maps were hand-drawn by using careful measurements of the ground. Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because ...

The Winkel Tripel projection, designed in 1921, is the National Geographic Society's preferred flat map, but even this has issues with distortion, particularly regarding the Pacific Ocean ...

They lived and worked with the crew last month as it mapped the Atlantic Ocean floor 1,500 ... The NOAA cruises used multibeam sonar to scan and map the ocean floor as part of a project titled ...