Marie Tharp’s topographical maps increased our understanding of both the ocean floor and the processes that move the earth’s crust.
The inside of earth does not look like what you think it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLQpuPqDEfM
Thanks to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory for images and maps https://marietharp.ldeo.columbia.edu/
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Sources:
https://books.google.de/books?hl=en&lr=&id=LtMkztgJsOoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=marie+tharp&ots=B4UTudubx7&sig=PsNdNew6_QJHxwmUjTu5zHjALTk&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=marietharp&f=false
https://theconversation.com/marie-tharp-pioneered-mapping-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-6-decades-ago-scientists-are-still-learning-about-earths-last-frontier-142451
https://seabed2030.org/about-us
https://dosits.org/people-and-sound/examine-the-earth/map-the-sea-floor/
https://web.uvic.ca/~jpoleson/Soundingweights/SLintro.html
https://rwu.pressbooks.pub/webboceanography/chapter/1-4-mapping-the-seafloor/
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap3-Plate-Margins/Divergent/Mid-Atlantic-Ridge
Images:
https://marietharp.ldeo.columbia.edu/
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sunbeams-underwater-viewed-from-seabed-in-a-reef-gm899696252-248255444
https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/around-the-world-arctic-yacht-goes-along-the-northern-cold-waves-swinging-and-chopping-polar-ridges-of-water-exclusive-documentary-footage-filmed-red-camera-during-a-scientific-expedition-to-norway-bn3vlekcwkhua3g8k
https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/ocean-floor-full-of-sea-plants-and-corals-with-sunlight-shining-through-water-hf5vaabpikbd3rl3v
https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/man-blowing-red-balloon-on-white-background-sk2q4dlrlkbzhna7p
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_Snider-Pellegrini_Opening_of_the_Atlantic.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_seafloor_crust_age_1996_-_2.png
https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/dark-blue-sea-surface-seen-from-underwater-abstract-waves-underwater-and-rays-of-sunlight-shining-through-blwcxjva3gjgfj1tpj
https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/earth-with-tectonic-plates-cracks-and-magma-4scopxw
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