Marie Tharp, Pioneering Mapmaker of the Ocean Floor, Dies
Source: Posted: 08-24-2006 at 12:01:13
| Marie Tharp, a pathbreaking oceanographic cartographer at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, co-creator of the first global map of the ocean floor and co-discoverer of the central rift valley that runs through the Mid-Atlantic Ridge died Wednesday August 23 in Nyack Hospital. She was 86. |
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