Meet Marie Tharp: The woman who never went to sea but discovered the hidden world beneath the oceans in 1957 and changed Earth science forever |
[ad_1] For much of the twentieth century, the deepest parts of the oceans remained among the least understood places on Earth. Ships crossed vast stretches of water every day, yet almost nobody knew what lay beneath them beyond scattered depth measurements collected for navigation. The seabed was often imagined as a broad, featureless plain interrupted…