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Marie Tharp transformed shipboard depth soundings into seafloor profiles, revealing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge's central rift valley and powerful evidence for plate tectonics.

She drew the floor of an unseen world

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Because women were barred from many research cruises, Tharp worked ashore with rows of echo-sounding numbers collected at sea. Her profiles exposed a rift through the Atlantic ridge; Bruce Heezen initially dismissed the tectonic implication, then the earthquake evidence confirmed it. By turning scattered measurements into landscape, she helped a moving planet become impossible to ignore.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Marie Tharp, gemilerden alınan derinlik ölçümlerini deniz tabanı kesitlerine dönüştürerek Orta Atlantik Sırtı'nın merkezindeki yarık vadiyi ve levha tektoniğine ilişkin güçlü kanıtı görünür kıldı.
Görünmeyen bir dünyanın tabanını çizdi

Kadınlar birçok araştırma seferine alınmadığı için Tharp karada, denizden gelen yankı ölçümü sütunlarıyla çalıştı. Kesitleri Atlantik sırtı boyunca uzanan yarığı açığa çıkardı; Bruce Heezen tektonik sonucu önce küçümsedi, ardından deprem verileri onu doğruladı. Tharp dağınık sayıları bir manzaraya çevirerek hareket eden gezegenin artık göz ardı edilememesine yardım etti.

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