The remarkable career of Marie Tharp, the cartographer and scientist who helped map the ocean s floor for the first time in history, is preserved in her papers at the Library. A pioneering female scientist of 20th century, her work help lay the groundwork for the modern understanding of continental drift and plate tectonics.
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The 30th of July 2020 marked the centenary of the birth of a woman who was central to the development of the field of Earth sciences: Marie Tharp, a pioneer of ocean floor cartography and marine geology. Her work was crucial in reintroducing a mobilist (drift) vision of Earth and for the development of the plate tectonics revolution in the early 1960s.