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Ocean speaks : how Marie Tharp revealed the ocean's biggest secret
- Title
- Ocean speaks : how Marie Tharp revealed the ocean's biggest secret / words by Jess Keating ; pictures by Katie Hickey.
- Author
- Keating, Jess
- Publication
- New York : Tundra Books, [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 22-489 | Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hickey, Katie
- Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps; 26 cm
- 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
- Alternative Title
- How Marie Tharp revealed the ocean's biggest secret
- Subject
- Tharp, Marie > Juvenile literature
- Tharp, Marie
- Cartographers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Women cartographers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Geomorphologists > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Submarine topography > Juvenile literature
- Cartographers
- Geomorphologists
- Submarine topography
- Women cartographers
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Instructional and educational works.
- Picture books.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Note
- Includes one fold-out page.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Awards (note)
- Honor winner for the 2021 Janes Addams Books for Younger Children Award
- Call Number
- JFF 22-489
- ISBN
- 0735265089
- 9780735265080
- LCCN
- 2019938103
- OCLC
- 1091191220
- Author
- Keating, Jess, author.
- Title
- Ocean speaks : how Marie Tharp revealed the ocean's biggest secret / words by Jess Keating ; pictures by Katie Hickey.
- Publisher
- New York : Tundra Books, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Awards
- Honor winner for the 2021 Janes Addams Books for Younger Children Award
- Added Author
- Hickey, Katie, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 22-489