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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little about the ocean’s deepest reaches. And there are good reasons to learn ...
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The Sea Floor Spread
The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland ... It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each ...
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The Atlantic Ocean may start shrinking
The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology. Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...
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The Atlantic Ocean - Black Hole of Andros
The Atlantic is the second largest ocean on the planet ... This toxic layer looks so dark it resembles the hole's floor but is actually a boundary which separates oxygenated water from oxygen ...
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The Benguela Current
These developments closed off the Atlantic Ocean, closing off an area ... a result of the decomposition of animals and plants on the ocean floor. Since there is not enough light below 160 feet ...
Penthouse sale at Sun & Surf scrapes $10 million on the oceanfront in Palm beach
Oceanview Penthouse 5 sells for $9.87 million after being listed at $11.5 million in late January at the Sun & Surf condo ...
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Atlantic circulation could be more resilient to global warming than was thought
A system of ocean currents called the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation ... of the Southern Ocean cools and sinks to the sea floor. If the formation of bottom water (and the associated ...