@article{456107,
      recid = {456107},
      author = {Felt, Hali.},
      title = {Soundings : the story of the remarkable woman who mapped  the ocean floor /},
      publisher = {Henry Holt and Co.,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {340 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"A compelling portrait of one of the most interesting  "forgotten" women of the twentieth century, the scientist  who mapped, for the first time, the ocean floor. Until  Marie Tharp's groundbreaking work in the 1950s, the floor  of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less  about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time  when women in the scientific community were routinely  dismissed, Tharp's work changed our understanding of the  earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce  Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings (records  of sonar pings measuring the ocean's depth across its  entire expanse), Tharp turned this data into beautiful and  controversial maps that laid the groundwork for proving the  theory of continental drift. Tharp's maps showed for the  first time that the continents were moving and had always  been moving and that what had happened over eons under the  sea was as "visible" now as looking at the same phenomenon  on land. Her maps have been called some of "the most  remarkable achievements in modern cartography" and yet no  one knows her name. The brilliant young writer Hali Felt  captures the romance of scientific discovery and brings to  vivid life this pioneering scientist who changed the way we  view the earth"--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/456107},
}