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Picture book biography of oceanic cartographer and geomorphologist Marie Tharp. In the mid-1900s, women were not allowed to go on scientific explorations with men, but from her job in a New York laboratory, Marie used the data men brought back and made a world-changing discovery--there are mid-ocean ridges, the largest chain of mountains in the world, beneath the ocean waters.
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"Marie Tharp earned a graduate degree in geology in the 1940s, at a time when scientific careers were largely unavailable to women. Marie's vision and tenacity paved the way for her to become one of the greatest oceanographic cartographers of the 20th century. She was the first person to map the ocean floor and discover the 40,000 mile long Mid-Ocean Ridge and Rift Valley. Her astounding discovery supported the theory of continental drift, which led...
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