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

In my opinion, however, even the admiration she has received for her maps—including the “Atlantic Ocean Floor” map, published in 1968 in National Geographic magazine (included below)—doesn ...

The Ocean Seeker slipped into Halifax ... first of many trips in a three-year mission to map 5,000-square kilometres of seabed throughout Atlantic Canada. Dave Shea, the vice-president of ...

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 ...

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 ...