Understanding the Earth: the contribution of Marie Tharp

dc.contributor.authorHiggs, Bettie Matheson
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-13T12:26:10Z
dc.date.available2021-05-13T12:26:10Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-23
dc.date.updated2021-05-13T12:18:06Z
dc.description.abstractMarie Tharp worked all her life as a geoscientist, and for the most part for the recognition and benefit of her male colleagues. She was employed to assist researchers at Columbia University. Her male colleagues readily used her ingenuity and insights without giving her recognition. Marie tolerated this at first but eventually began to ask for recognition for her own work. Her most influential work was the production of physiographical maps of the ocean floor. During this work, in the 1950s, Marie was the first scientist to realize that there was a large rift running the length of the Atlantic Ocean, and she eventually demonstrated that this rift linked to the East African Rift Valley. Her male colleagues suppressed this discovery for reasons of their own, and 4 years later presented it as their own research. The work caused some key figures in the history of plate tectonics to change the direction of their research. Marie suffered in her career due to rivalries between her male colleagues. It was not until the 1990s that Marie began to be recognized nationally and internationally, and receive awards for her work.en
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dc.identifier.citationHiggs, B. M. (2020) 'Understanding the Earth: the contribution of Marie Tharp'. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 506 (1), pp. 231-243. doi: 10.1144/SP506-2019-248en
dc.identifier.doi10.1144/sp506-2019-248en
dc.identifier.eissn2041-4927
dc.identifier.endpage243en
dc.identifier.issn0305-8719
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleGeological Society, London, Special Publicationsen
dc.identifier.startpage231en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11315
dc.identifier.volume506en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherGeological Society of Londonen
dc.relation.urihttps://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/specpubgsl/506/1/231.full.pdf
dc.rights© 2020 The Author(s). Published by The Geological Society of London. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectMarie Tharpen
dc.subjectWomen in scienceen
dc.subjectGeoscientistsen
dc.subjectWomen in scientific careersen
dc.subjectFemale geologistsen
dc.titleUnderstanding the Earth: the contribution of Marie Tharpen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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