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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...
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The Sea Floor Spread
The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland ... It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each ...
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Less mapped than the Moon: quest to reveal the seabed
It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...
THE WEEK1y
The Atlantic Ocean may start shrinking
The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology. Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...
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The Atlantic Ocean - Black Hole of Andros
The Atlantic is the second largest ocean on the planet ... This toxic layer looks so dark it resembles the hole's floor but is actually a boundary which separates oxygenated water from oxygen ...
World’s Largest Iceberg Runs Aground
A massive superberg, four times as big as New York City, has halted east of the southern tip of South America.
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Atlantic circulation could be more resilient to global warming than was thought
Read the paper: Continued Atlantic overturning circulation ... when salty water at the surface of the Southern Ocean cools and sinks to the sea floor. If the formation of bottom water (and the ...