Ocean speaks : Marie Tharp and the map that moved the earth

The Resource Ocean speaks : Marie Tharp and the map that moved the earth

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Ocean speaks : Marie Tharp and the map that moved the earth

Title remainder

Marie Tharp and the map that moved the earth

Statement of responsibility

Jess Keating, Katie Hickey

Language

eng

Summary

From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems. And she loved pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious. She got a job in a laboratory at Cambridge University, New York. But then she faced another barrior: women were not allowed on the research ships (they were considered bad luck on boats). So instead, Marie stayed back and dove deep into the data her colleagues recorded. She mapped point after point and slowly revealed a deep rift valley in the ocean floor. At first the scientific community refused to believe her, but her evidence was irrefutable. She proved to the world that her research was correct. The mid-ocean ridge that Marie discovered is the single largest geographic feature on the planet, and she mapped it all from her small, cramped office

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Issued also in electronic format.

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

NLC

Dewey number

j526.092

Illustrations

illustrations
maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

juvenile

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