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Subject:        Re: solar system vs. seafloor mapping
Date:   Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:55:21 -0400
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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On 4/23/2012 12:37 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:
> The ocean floor has been mapped a lot more than Mars and Venus. Here is
> a link to a blog post that I wrote about Marie Tharp, a scientist that
> deserves recognition for doing this valuable work.



There is a nice article by Gary North, who had been asked to serve as
executor of her estate, in _The Portolan_ (journal of the Washington Map
Society) 79 (winter 2010): 20-7. The Geography and Map Division of LC
houses the collection, and as I understand it some 40,000 items from her
(and Bruce Heezen's) collection have been processed. North's article was
based on his similar work, "Marie Tharp: The Lady Who Showed Us the
Ocean Floors," that had been published as part of an Elsevier series in
the fall of 2010: /The Physics and Chemistry of the Earth./

Joel Kovarsky