Monthly Archives: July 2020

Marie Tharp’s Adventures in Mapping the Seafloor, In Her Own Words

Establishing the rift valley and the mid-ocean ridge that went all the way around the world for 40,000 miles…You can’t find anything bigger than that, at least on this planet. Lots of cool science history in this first-person account, but also … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, history of science, tectonics