Ocean speaks : how Marie Tharp revealed the ocean's biggest secret / words by Jess Keating ; pictures by Katie Hickey.
2020
GA407.T43 K43 2020 (Mapit)
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Title
Ocean speaks : how Marie Tharp revealed the ocean's biggest secret / words by Jess Keating ; pictures by Katie Hickey.
Author
Keating, Jess, author.
ISBN
9780735265080 (hardcover)
0735265089 (hardcover)
0735265089 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Tundra Books, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Call Number
GA407.T43 K43 2020
Alternate Call Number
cci1icc
Dewey Decimal Classification
526.092 [B]
Summary
'From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems. And she loved pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious. She got a job at a laboratory in New York. But then she faced another barrior: women were not allowed on the research ships (they were considered bad luck on boats). So instead, Marie stayed back and dove deep into the data her colleagues recorded. She mapped point after point and slowly revealed a deep rift valley in the ocean floor. At first the scientific community refused to believe her, but her evidence was irrefutable. She proved to the world that her research was correct. The mid-ocean ridge that Marie discovered is the single largest geographic feature on the planet, and she mapped it all from her small, cramped office." -- Amazon.com
Note
Includes one fold-out page.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Awards
Honor winner for the 2021 Janes Addams Books for Younger Children Award.
Added Author
Hickey, Katie, illustrator.
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