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A pioneer wiped off the map
07.16.2025
Marie Tharp in July 2001 at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
A name frequently associated with plate tectonics is that of the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener. However, another one would deserve recognition: that of the American cartographer Marie Tharp,...
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What Makes our Continents Dance?
11.18.2019
What forces move the tectonic plates of the Earth's surface? A team of geophysicists drawn primarily from two CNRS laboratories used a 3D simulation of our planet to answer this 50-year-old...
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