You know how plate tectonics are definitely real and the oceans are full of seamounts and shit? Yeah, well, no one else did until 1959.

Josie from A Hill to Die On joins Sarah to talk about Marie Tharp and how she provided pivotal insight into the seafloor morphology and seafloor mapping that allowed scientists to bring their understanding of how the Earth works into the 20th century.

Resources:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/marie-tharp-maps-plate-tectonics-seafloor-cartography

https://www.whoi.edu/who-we-are/about-us/people/awards-recognition/mary-sears-women-pioneers-in-oceanography-award/award-recipients/marie-tharp-biography/

https://www.science.org/content/article/once-honored-racist-ocean-science-pioneer-now-rejected

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/marie-tharp

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://www.whoi.edu/news-insights/content/marie-tharp/