Oral history interview with Marie Tharp, 1994 September 14.

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Oral history interview with Marie Tharp, 1994 September 14.

Discusses her childhood and Tharp family history; her work in seismology and cartography with Lamont Doherty Observatory, National Geographic, and Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute; plotting the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; research vessles including the ATLANTIS and the VEMA. Prominently mentioned are: Maurice Ewing, Walter Bucher, Bruce Heezen, Helen Foster, J. L. Worzel. Interview contains appendices 1-20 and inserts that have been placed into the body of the transcript.

Sound recording: 4 sound cassettes (ca. 5.5 hrs.)Transcript: 56 pp.

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