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Title Soundings : the story of the remarkable woman who mapped the ocean floor / Hali Felt.
Author Felt, Hali.
Publisher New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2012.
Description 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs, frontispiece ; 25 cm


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 BP-Biography  B THARP Nearby on shelf  3 0613 00238 9298 01-18-20  AVAILABLE
 CS-Environmental Center  ENV B THARP Nearby on shelf  30619001802025 09-13-12  AVAILABLE
 CW-Adult Upper Level Non-Fiction  B THARP  30620004311519 08-04-14  AVAILABLE
 EI-Adult Collection  526.092 FEL Nearby on shelf  30626002414015 12-05-17  AVAILABLE
 HM-Main Level  526.092 FEL  31248007353475 (none)  AVAILABLE
 JJ-Biographies  B THARP FELT Nearby on shelf  30635001068037 04-29-22  AVAILABLE
 RM-Lower Level  BIO THARP Nearby on shelf  064791003066256 10-10-12  AVAILABLE
 RV-Lower Stacks  B THARP  30646003011487 03-16-13  AVAILABLE
 SH-Adult-Main Level  526.092 THARP F Nearby on shelf  30652003515014 04-04-13  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliograhical references (pages [303]-321) and index.
Summary "A compelling portrait of one of the most interesting "forgotten" women of the twentieth century, the scientist who mapped, for the first time, the ocean floor. Until Marie Tharp's groundbreaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Tharp's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean's depth across its entire expanse), Tharp turned this data into beautiful and controversial maps that laid the groundwork for proving the theory of continental drift. Tharp's maps showed for the first time that the continents were moving and had always been moving and that what had happened over eons under the sea was as "visible" now as looking at the same phenomenon on land. Her maps have been called some of "the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography" and yet no one knows her name. The brilliant young writer Hali Felt captures the romance of scientific discovery and brings to vivid life this pioneering scientist who changed the way we view the earth"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Tharp, Marie.
Cartographers -- United States -- Biography.
Geomorphologists -- United States -- Biography.
Women cartographers -- United States -- Biography.
Submarine topography.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780805092158
0805092153