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Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth's last frontier

  • Written by Suzanne OConnell, Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University
imageTharp with an undersea map at her desk. Rolled sonar profiles of the ocean floor are on the shelf behind her.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the estate of Marie Tharp

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little about the ocean’s deepest reaches. And there...

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