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Name: Marie Tharp
Birth Date: July 30, 1920
Place of Birth: Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: oceanographic cartographer, geologist

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Geologist Marie Tharp (born 1920) is known for her maps of ocean floors. These maps are helpful in showing the structure and evolution of the sea floors. Marie Tharp is a mapmaker who charted the bottom of the ocean at a time when little was known...


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Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 - August 23, 2006) was a geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, along with her colleague Bruce Heezen, co-discovered the Mid-Oceanic Ridge, a line of undersea mountains that runs through Earth's oceans, and mapped the...


 

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