Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...

If you look back at the history of Atlantic ... ocean surface temperatures, ocean currents, global-scale wind patterns and atmospheric pressure gradients affect regional hurricane frequency. As ...

In my opinion, however, even the admiration she has received for her maps—including the “Atlantic Ocean Floor” map, published in 1968 in National Geographic magazine (included below)—doesn ...

Geologist Marie Tharp turned years of data into easily digestible maps. She also discovered the Mid-Atlantic ... bottom of the ocean. Back then, no one knew what the ocean floor looked like ...

An animal that burrowed horizontally through the sea floor might have made these linear holes, says a marine zoologist Credit: NOAA At over 8,000 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean, scientists ...

Similar openings on the sea floor were first spotted 18 years ago ... the waters along a volcanic ridge in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sea explorers using a remotely operated vehicle to ...

This area in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, a hauntingly beautiful expanse marked by glowing sea creatures and ... the ocean floor told a very different story.

Deep in the Atlantic Ocean ... Like a massive ocean conveyor belt, the current then returns in the direction it came from, flowing south along the ocean floor. Scientists know this conveyor ...