A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics. It typically has a depth of ~ 2,600 meters (8,500 ft) and rises about two kilometers above the deepest portion of an ...
Tharp’s map provided some of the necessary missing evidence. If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...
The structure of the ocean floor is extremely vast and irregular. In 1948, when Marie Tharp started working at the Lamont Geological Laboratory, not much was kn ...