Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Raúl Colón
ISBN: 9781481416009
Read April 28, 2016
This is another lovely biography of an early scientist who happens to be a woman. Marie Tharp gets very little recognition now, but her passion to map out the ocean floor using sonar soundings and depth markers played a key part in forcing scientists to accept the theory of continental drift, by using the ridges and valleys on the ocean floors to prove that there really are continental plates bumping up against each other.Not bad for someone who got told there weren't any openings for file clerks (she was applying for the position as staff scientist) and got left behind on ocean voyages because women were bad luck on ships.Colón's illustrations are consistently gorgeous, and his depictions of Marie at different times throughout her life are lovely to see progress.
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